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Yemen rejects US envoy claim on lack of democratic progress

Published October 9th, 2005 - 11:22 GMT

A Yemeni media source criticized on Saturday the latest comments by U.S. ambassador to Sana'a, Thomas Krajeski, in which he claimed that Yemen's democratic progress was stopped.

 

According to SABA, the source said that "Yemen is an independent country and democracy in Yemen only concerns Yemeni people themselves and no body else." The source added that such statements do not serve the good Yemeni-US relations, and considered them as an interference in the internal affairs of Yemen. "We don't know what the US. ambassador wants from the democracy in Yemen and what are his standards for democracy progress. Does he want it to be like to the democracy of the collation forces in Iraq? " the source asked.

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