Yemen stressed taken security measures to protect the Americans
Yemen-USA, Politics, 6/22/2001

The Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qurabi has announced that his country had taken all measures to ensure the security of the American diplomats following the decision taken by Washington to decrease number of the embassy employees and warning its citizens from travelling to Yemen.

Meantime, the Saudi- Yemeni coordination council started in Sanaa meetings of its 2nd session to discuss means of consolidating bilateral relations between the two countries.

Al-Qurabi said in an interview broadcast by the Saudi TV "MBC" " we have taken all sorts of protection for them. Doubtless the Americans are concerned over the security of their embassy not only in Yemen but also in several countries as a result of sentences taken in New York and as a result of the tense situation in the Middle East." A US federal Jury on May 29 convicted four of the followers of the Saudi born Osama Bin laden over taking part in a plan aiming at killing Americans and blowing the two embassies of Washington in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

During his visit to Jordan after he took part in the meeting of the Arab Follow up committee, al - Qurabi said that Yemen cannot shift the trial of the persons suspected to be involved in blowing the American warship to the US because Yemen's position is clear towards that any trial will be made according to the Yemeni law and constitution.

Yemen had arrested 10 persons under suspicion of planning an attack against the UN embassy in Sanaa.

Al-Qurabi noted that the " Yemeni government was told by the Americans that the embassy received a threat and that they ( the Americans) are taking this threat seriously, adding that Yemen for its part had taken all measures and utmost cooperation in investigations concerning the US warship "USS Cole."

Meanwhile, the Yemeni- Saudi co-ordination council started its meetings under the chairmanship of the Saudi minister of defense prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz who arrived in Sanaa on head of a delegation including 16 ministers, and the Yemeni side by the prime minister Abdul Qader Bajmal.

The council is presumed to discuss several issues that would consolidate bilateral relations.

Upon receiving the Saudi delegation, Bajmal stressed the " need that the two neighborly countries will establish partnership relations." An official source said that the two states delegations with each of them to include several ministers will discuss in " on using a loan of $ 300 million for the Saudi fund for development to finance several projects."

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