Palestinian envoy denies Yemen embassy to close

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

SANAA (AFP) — The Palestinian envoy to Yemen on Sunday denied a report by his embassy's own spokesman that the mission was closing in protest at "dual Palestinian representation," an apparent reference to a Hamas office.

"The embassy of the state of Palestine in the Republic of Yemen is open and functioning normally," Ahmed Al-Dik was quoted by Yemen's official Saba news agency as saying.

It also quoted him as calling Palestinian-Yemeni relations "solid and good."

On Saturday the embassy's spokesman Fayez Jawad told AFP, without elaborating, that the Palestinian mission in Sanaa was closing "in protest at the dual Palestinian representation in Yemen."

His statement appeared to be a move aimed at putting pressure on the Yemeni authorities to reduce...