Retired French Foreign Minister to visit Yemen

Former French Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Senate, Jean Francois-Poncet, plans to visit Yemen this coming Friday, reported the weekly 26 September. 

The weekly learned the French delegation would meet several senior government officials during their four day visit to discuss strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries as well as ties between their parliaments. 

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