Abdullah al-Saidi (born 1947) is a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

i diplomat. He served as the Yemeni Ambassador to the

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from 22 July 2002 to 2011, replacing Abdullah Saleh al-Ashtal. He quit his position over the

2011 Yemeni uprising The Yemeni Revolution (intifada), also known as the Yemeni Revolution of Dignity followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and other Arab Spring protests in the M ...

."Yemen Live Blog – March 21"
Al Jazeera English. 21 March 2011. He was replaced by Jamal Abdullah al-Sallal as the Ambassador to the UN.

Education

He received his BA degree in political science from Long Island University in 1975 and his MA in political science from

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in 1982.

Career

He has also held important government positions, including Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002 and member of the National Arbitration Committee with Eritrea over the

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from 1996 to 2002. In 1995, he served as Counsellor in the Office of the Foreign Minister. From 1986 to 1988, he was Director of the Deputy Foreign Minister's Office. In 1997, he was a member of the Yemeni delegation to the United Nations Mission. He also served as foreign minister from 2014 to 2015.

Personal life

He is married and has three children.

References

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