Official: UK cancels travel warning on Yemen

Published August 18th, 2004 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Mohammad Bin Mohammad Qafla, an official at the Yemeni ministry of tourism said that the British government canceled its warnings for Britons against visiting Yemen. 

 

Qafla said in remarks to al-Wahda newspaper published Wednesday that the decision would affect positively on tourism movement into Yemen. 

 

He added that canceling the warning came due to Yemeni government's efforts to carry out the plan of security deployment and before the coming visit of president Ali Abdullah Saleh to UK next September.

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