SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh held talks Saturday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, who stressed his country s support for Yemen at an upcoming London conference.
We will provide all political support for Yemen at this meeting, Aboul Gheit said at a news conference in Sanaa, where he and Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met with Saleh.
Egypt and the rest of the Arab states will stand with Yemen in this meeting and back any mechanism agreed upon to provide it political, economic and security support, he added.
The London conference on extremism in Yemen starts on Wednesday, and will be attended by representatives from 21 countries.
It was called by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown days after it emerged a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day could have been trained by the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. -AFP
