Yemeni President for good relations with Saudi Arabia

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has asked Saudi Arabia to postpone negotiations on demarcation of joint borders.

Yemeni news agency quoted the Yemeni President as saying in a telephone call to the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah: "If there is no keen interest in our Saudi brothers to settle the question of border demarcation at the meantime, we can postpone negotiation until such a keenness is established."

The Yemeni President stressed the need to eliminate attempts aiming at undermining good bilateral relations. The two countries signed in 1995 a memorandum of understanding providing for normalization of bilateral relations and border demarcation.