Yemen's Popular Committees Announce Readiness to Cooperate with Qatar

Rasa - Yemeni Popular Forces announced their readiness to cooperate the Qatari government after recent decision by several Arab countries to cut diplomatic ties with the Persian Gulf country, media reports said.

News ID: 430181

Date: 07 June 2017 - 22:42

RNA - “We condemn actions against Qatar. We are ready to cooperate with Qatar as the Qataris are known to us as men of sincerity, loyalty, and wisdom, we experienced this during Qatari mediation in the Yemeni conflict ,” Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, the head of Yemen's Revolutionary Committees wrote in a message on his Tweeter account, Al Masdar reported.

Mohammed Abdul- Salam, head the group's delegation to Kuwait, and official spokesperson of Ansarullah movement also said on his Facebook page:”The Saudi and Emirati regimes are seeking to extract the Qatari decision in a manner that favors their brutality and imaginary attempt to extract the national decision of the Yemenis, which they have been unable to do thus far.”

The Qatari govenrment attempted to mediate a peaceful settlement in Yemen between Ansarullah and government of ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Saleh in 2004.

On May 8, 2007, the former Emir of Qatar visited the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, this visit was followed by the arrival of the former Qatari Foreign Minister and former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem to Sana’a, just about a month after the Qatar Emir’s visit to Yemen.

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