President offers condolences to Hollande on victims of Paris terrorist attack
The Source: SANA'A\Hadhramaut\Saba - Wednesday -14/Jan./2015
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President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi received on Tuesday French ambassador to Yemen, Jean Marc Grosjean.
During the meeting, Hadi asked the ambassador to convey his condolences to the French President François Hollande and the French people on the victims of the terrorist attack that took place in Paris lately causing the death of scores of innocent people.
He also expressed condemnation of the terrorist and criminal attack.
Hadi said that Yemen has been effected badly by terrorism, which entered Yemen through various channels and by different manners.
"Yemen has been a victim of terrorism since 1998 when militants, led by Abu Hamza al-Massri, seized 16 Western tourists and opened fire on them killing four,'' he said.
"We affirm that Yemen has suffered greatly from terrorism which came to it from abroad, and is not, as some say, an exporter of terrorism," he added.
Hadi expressed Yemen's full solidarity with the French people and the families of the victims of last week's shootings which left 17 people dead.
"On the same day of the Paris' attack, Yemen was hit by a terrorist crime, in which at least 40 people were killed in the Yemeni capital by a car bomb targeting cadets,'' President Hadi noted.
He added that "This proves that terrorism does not make distinction between one country and another... or one religion and another.”
President Hadi called for more cooperation by world states to eradicate terrorism completely.
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