AL-QIRBI TO HAND OVER PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS TO ERITREA, DJIBOUTI

SANA'A, Jan. 14 (Saba) - The weekly 26 September learned on Thursday that the Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi would hand over letters from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Eritrean and Djiboutian counterparts.

Well-informed sources told the weekly that al-Qirbi's visits to Eritrea and Djibouti would follow his visit to Washington on January 20th.

During the visits, al-Qirbi will hold talks with his Eritrean and Djiboutian counterparts over developments in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somali and the combating piracy.

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