almotamar.net - Yemen's foreign minister Dr Abu Bakr al-Qirbi has on Thursday made it clear that what the US department of State did for our ambassador to Washington was a provocation rather than summoning regarding what happened to the Jewish community in north of Yemen.

Dr al-Qirbi told almotamar.net the American State Department provoked ambassador Abdulwahaab al-Hijri with regard to what happened to the Jews in Yemen in the events of Saada last January. The Yemeni ambassador to Washington affirmed to the US State Department that the sons of the Jewish community in Yemen are considered as Yemeni citizens the constitution and the law guarantee to them their rights as Yemeni citizens without discrimination.

The foreign minister stressed that the Yemeni ambassador had clarified the facts so that the events cannot be exploited in offending Yemen.