Yasin Said Numan
Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder Yasin Said Numan (Template:Langx; born 21 March 1947)<ref>https://diplomatmagazine.com/heads-of-mission/middle-east-asia/republic-of-yemen/</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Numan joined the Yemeni National Front, which later became the Yemeni Socialist Party, when he was 17.<ref name=Bio>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1986 he became the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from February 1986<ref name="Europa World Year Book">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Europa World Year Book" />
After the Unification of Yemen Numan became the interim Speaker of Parliament, until the parliamentary election of 1993<ref name="yemenparliament">Template:Cite web</ref> when he was replaced by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar.<ref name=Bio/> He became the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party in 2005.<ref>[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]</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He escaped from an assassination attempt in August 2012; he was one of several Socialist Party politicians targeted during 2012.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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