almotamar.net - Yemen's Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi left Sana'a Saturday for Damascus on a short visit conveying a verbal message from President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.

In a statement to Yemen News agency Saba al-Qirbi said the message is related to a group of issues mainly bilateral relations and the Arab situations in Palestine, or Iraq or Lebanon in addition to coordination of the two countries' stands and the efforts exerted by Yemen and Syria for the achievement of more Arab accord and solution of Arab-Arab differences.