Abubakr al-Kirbi

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Abu Bakr al-Kirbi ( Arabic أبو بكر القربي, DMG Abū Bakr al-Qirbī ; also al-Kerbi ) is a Yemeni politician .

biography

Al-Kirbi graduated in medicine in the UK , he with a promotion to Doctor of Medicine finished. After returning to Yemen , he was Vice Rector of the University of Sanaa from 1982 to 1993 .

In 1993 he was appointed Minister of Education. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a member of the Consultative Council and Chairman of the Committee on Human and Freedom Rights.

On April 4, 2001, he was appointed Foreign Minister by President Ali Abdullah Salih, succeeding Abd al-Qadir Badschamal , who himself became Prime Minister. He kept the post of foreign minister even after Ali Mohammed Mujur succeeded Badschamal as prime minister.

In March 2007 he flew to Tehran to formally persuade the Iranian Foreign Minister Manutschehr Mottaki to immediately stop arms aid to the Shiites in Yemen . Shiite rebels had been fighting the regime in Sanaa for almost three years. The Shiite leader Abd al-Malik al-Huthi , who is venerated as a saint by his fanatical followers, is considered to be the leader of the holy warriors who call themselves the believing youth .

In the context of the discussion about the closure of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , he interjected in 2008 that some of the Yemeni nationals imprisoned there had nothing to do with terrorism and that after their release he saw no reasons for further imprisonment in Yemeni prisons.

Web links

Commons : Abubakr al-Kirbi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rockets for the believing youth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2007, p. 107 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Obama's biggest Guantanamo dilemma may lie in Yemen ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ How Guantánamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama
  4. ↑ Yemen Ready to Receive 70 Prisoners ( Memento from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kirbi, Abubakr al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirbi, Abu Bakr al-; Kerbi, Abu Bakr al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yemeni politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century