Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja visited Yemen

Press Release 73/2013
31 March 2013

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja visited Yemen on 31 March in association with his broader itinerary to the region of the Horn of Africa.

Foreign Minister Tuomioja and Yemeni officials discussed the situation concerning the Finnish couple and Austrian man abducted in the country in December 2012 and received an overview of the political and security situation in Yemen.

The agenda in Sanaa, the capital, included bilateral talks with Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi as well as a meeting with Foreign Minister Abubakr Al-Qirbi. Other topics of discussion were bilateral issues and the regional situation.

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