Yemeni Authorities Condemn Trump's Muslim Ban

Rasa - Sana'a condemned a decision by the US President Donald Trump to temporarily ban Yemeni citizens from traveling to the United States and called the measure as "illegal and illegitimate.

News ID: 426940

Date: 29 January 2017 - 23:27

RNA - Yemen, situated in the South of the Arabian Peninsula is one of seven majority Muslim countries whose citizens now face a 90-day ban on entering the United States while the US administration says it studies ways to keep militants out, SABA reported.

A Yemeni foreign ministry source said the ministry was aware that such action is the sovereign right of the US government. But the source said emphatically that any attempt to classify Yemen or its citizens as a possible source of terrorism and extremism was illegal and illegitimate.

Yemeni popular groups have the control of Northern areas, including the capital Sana'a and the country's largest international airport, while the militants supporting  former president Abd Rabbuh Mansoor Hadi are based in the South and East.

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