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| Saleh apologises to UAE for embassy blockade |
| 2011-05-24 |
| DUBAI - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh apologised to the United Arab Emirates on Monday after gunmen loyal to Saleh surrounded the UAE embassy in Sanaa during diplomatic talks a day earlier. The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a phone call from the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in which he offered his apology for the events that happened in UAE embassy yesterday. UAE, Gulf and Western diplomats and Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) Abdullatif Al Zayani were besieged after a number of demonstrators surrounded the UAEÂ’s embassy in Yemen. |
| Posted by:Steve White |