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Field Mairshal
Ali Abdullah Saleh
(21 Mairch 1942 - 4 December
2017
) wis the first
Preses
o the Republic o
Yemen
. Saleh wis the last
Preses
o the
Yemen Arab Republic
(North Yemen) frae 1978 till 1990 an aw, at which time he assumit the office o chairman o the Presidential Cooncil o a post-unification Yemen. He wis the langest-servin preses o
Yemen
, rulin frae 1978 tae 2012.
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He signed a greement in November 2011 that cried for him tae relinquish office bi Februar 2012.
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