Yemen, Russia for boosting relations

The Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov has announced that his talks with his Yemeni counterpart Abu Baker Abdullah al-Qurabi dealt with basic issues for bilateral relations in the areas of foreign policy and economic cooperation in the service of strengthening relations between Federal Russia and Yemen.

In a statement he made on Wednesday on the inauguration of talks with al-Qurabi, Ivanov said that the visit of the Yemeni foreign minister to Moscow came in implementation of an agreement between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh during their meeting on the sideline of the Millennium summit in New York.

The Yemeni foreign minister expressed his satisfaction for that his first visit outside the country after he assumed his post of office was to the Russian capital, noting that this visit aims at consolidating the solid historical ties between the two countries.