World IN BRIEF : MIDDLE EAST : 2 Yemens Take First Step to Unification
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Leaders of pro-Western Yemen and Marxist South Yemen signed a draft constitution as a first step toward the unification of the two countries on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. After 18 years of intermittent talks, the two countries published a draft constitution and said it will be referred to their legislative bodies for endorsement. The two Yemens will merge into a republic of about 11 million people.
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