Yasin Said Numan

Yassin Saeed Noman
ياسين سعيد نعمان
Noman in 2009
Ambassador of Yemen to the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 May 2015
President of the House of Representatives of Yemen
In office
1990–1993
Preceded byNew office
Succeeded byAbdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar
Personal details
Born1947 (age 76–77)
Aden Protectorate
Political partyYemeni Socialist Party

Yasin Said Numan (Arabic: ياسين سعيد نعمان; born 1948)[1] is the former General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party from 2005 to 2015. He is the current ambassador of Yemen to the United Kingdom since 2015.[2]

Numan joined the Yemeni National Front, which later became the Yemeni Socialist Party, when he was 17.[3] In 1986 he became the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986[4] until Yemeni unification in 1990, under Chairman Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister. Numan had previously been Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister.[4]

After the Unification of Yemen Numan became the interim Speaker of Parliament, until the parliamentary election of 1993[5] when he was replaced by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar.[3] He became the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party in 2005.[6]

During the Yemeni Revolution of 2011, Numan was critical of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and supported a plan by the GCC for Saleh to step down.[7] He escaped from an assassination attempt in August 2012; he was one of several Socialist Party politicians targeted during 2012.[8]

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  2. ^ "الرئيس هادي يصدر قرار جمهوري بتعيين الدكتور ياسين سعيد نعمان سفيراليمن في بريطانيا". Al-tagheer. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b Francois-Xavier Tregan (1 February 2012). "Searching For Yemen: Opposition Leader Yassin Said Numan's National Quest". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b Taylor & Francis Group (2004). Europa World Year Book 2, Book 2. p. 4701. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  5. ^ Former Presidencies
  6. ^ [National Information Center. "Basic information about Political Parties/ Basic information Yemeni Socialist Party." National Information Center (Yemen). Presidential Office of the Republic, 2010. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://www.yemen-nic.info/sectors/politics/detail.php?ID=8437]
  7. ^ Vivian Salama (9 May 2011). "Yemen Is 'Collapsing' Amid Stalemate, Former Premier Numan Says". Bloomberg. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  8. ^ Jomana Farhat (15 September 2012). "Yemen's Numan: Power Must Return to the Popular Will". Retrieved 15 August 2014.