UAE PRESIDENT RECEIVES LETTER FROM PRESIDENT SALEH

ABU DHABI, Dec. 16 (Saba) - President of United Arab Emirates
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan received here on Wednesday a letter from
President Ali Abdullah Saleh pertaining to the bilateral relations.

The letter was handed over to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin
Zayed Al Nahyan by the Minister of Foreign Affaires Abu Bakr
al-Qirbi.

In the letter, President Saleh thanks to the UAE country and
president for their support to Yemen in all areas, especially the
UAE grant in the London Donor Conference and the UAE offer to build
houses for the affected people in Hadramout and Mahrah governorates
due to the heavy rain- storm hit in October 2008.

In the meeting, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
his country's supportive attitude to the Yemeni unity, security,
stability and the development process in the country as well.

He affirmed the UAE country's support to Yemen to overcome the
rebellion of al-Houthi in Sa'ada governorate, saying that UAE is all
confident that Yemen is able to put an end to the rebellion.

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