set up in 2004 by FW de Klerk to support good governance and reduce conflict around the world. He has been credited with brokering the Arab Spring peace negotiations in 2012, resulting in a transition plan for President Saleh to resign. Al-Iryani died on 8 November 2015 in Frankfurt. Mustapha Noman, a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, called him "the last statesman Yemen had, and will have, for another generation." References External links 1934 births 2015 deaths Prime Ministers of Yemen General People's Congress (Yemen) politicians Leaders of North Yemen University of Georgia alumni Yale University alumni Center for Contemporary Arab Studies faculty People from Ibb Governorate 20th-century prime ministers of Yemen Foreign ministers of Yemen Planning and International Cooperation ministers of Yemen Deputy Prime Ministers of Yemen 21st-century Yemeni politicians