http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Al-Qirbi meets German envoy [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 14/12/2009] Foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi met on Monday with German chancellor's envoy Juergen Chrobog. The meeting dealt with the bilateral relationship and issues of mutual interest at the regional and international levels.The topic of the Germans who were kidnapped while on a picnic in Saada in the far north in June, their condition and the efforts exerted by the two countries to find and release them, was raised as well.On June 14, the Houthi rebels were accused of kidnapping a group of nine foreigners  including Germans, Britons and a South Korean.Two days after the kidnapping, three bodies were found and identified as two German nurses and a South Korean.They were terribly slain, with German officials then saying the slaying bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.Since then, the fate of the others, four Germans, a family of two parents and their kids and a Briton couple, remained unclear.Chrobog arrived in Yemen on Sunday, as special envoy of Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, carrying letter for President Ali Abdullah Saleh.The letter mainly focused on the bilateral relationship and means to forge cooperation between Yemen and the European state.