18 Countries Want Consulates at Aden [Archives:2000/03/Local News]

Informed diplomatic sources report that nearly 18 foreign countries asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to agree for opening of Consulates and Trade Missions in Aden and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had agreed to some of them. They added that the United States, India, Pakistan and some members of the European Union are at the top of the list.
These demands come in the frame of international interest that is enjoyed by Aden as an economic and commercial capital for Yemen, and in accordance with the intention by government to restore the old status of the Foreign Affairs Office as it was after the 22nd. of May, 1990: a branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not only an office as it is now.
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