Yemeni foreign minister to visit Egypt and Syria

Yemen's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Abdul Qader Bajmal, is to pay official visits to Cairo and Damascus on October 31, during which he will deliver messages from Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Official sources in Yemen said that the two messages are concerned with methods of enhancing and developing relations between Yemen, Egypt and Syria.

In addition to talks on issues and new developments in the Arab, regional and international arenas of concern to Islamic and Arab states.