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Yemen Denies Reports about Request to Establish Camp for Free Army
[Yemen Post] Yemen has denied media reports that Turkey had requested to establish a training camp for the Syrian free army in the country, the Al-Shara'a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The paper quoted a bigwig in the Yemeni government as saying the media reports that Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmed Oglo, has conveyed the request during his visit to Yemen this week was 'untrue'. Oglo left Sanaa three days ago after his visit that came to confirm his country's support to Yemen. During the visit key bilateral agreements, mainly in the economic field, were signed. "The information was baseless because Yemen and Turkey never talked about such a request. The two countries focused on economic cooperation and other key issues of mutual interest" the official said. "Yemen is very far from the battles between the Syrian regime and free army forces, and for this, such reports were not reasonable," the official said, wondering about media attempts aimed at widening disagreements among the Yemeni political factions and harming the Yemeni president's character. The paper also quoted an official from the Islah party as denying that President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi had met with officials from the party to discuss the Turkish request. Muhammad Qahtan said we already met the president but the report about such a request was really unacceptable, according to the paper. "Yemen has no borders with Syria and the status of the Syrian free army requires logistic and training aid from a neighboring country, not ours". Posted by: Fred 2012-10-25 |
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