RIYADH, June 11: Saudi Arabia will hand over to Yemen next month a number of installations in border areas designated as Yemeni territory under the 2000 Jeddah treaty, sources said on Thursday.

According to press reports here, the handover of the border sites to Yemen was agreed on by a joint military panel that met in Sanaa last month. Among the sites to be handed over by the kingdom will be a remote airport on the southeastern Saudi border, the paper said, adding the military committee set a timeframe for the handover.

Demarcation of the kingdom's 1,845-kilometre border with Yemen was completed last month after 824 markers were put in place.

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