Yemeni government denies prior knowledge of Iranian diplomat’s abduction time

Foreign Ministry has denied what came in statements by Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affaris, Hussein Amir, about Yemeni government’s prior knowledge of time and place of kidnapping an Iranian diplomat. A source at the ministry confirmed to Saba that the security authorities have responded as soon as its knowledge of the incident and they are currently exerting their efforts to release the Iranian diplomat in a way that save preserve his safety. The source stressed that such irresponsible statements have a negative impact on the efforts made by the competent Yemeni authorities to free the kidnapped and do not serve the relations between the two countries. The source reiterated that the kidnapping acts are condemned in all its forms, whether the abducted person was Yemeni or foreigner or a diplomat. The Iranian diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Sana’a , Ahmed Nur, was kidnapped by gunmen in last July in the capital Sana’a, and Yemeni authorities still exert efforts to free him since then.