Possible Yemeni-British  Cooperation to Fight Terrorism [Archives:2001/03/Front Page]

An appeal for clemency of the British prisoners in Aden was submitted through the British Embassy to the Yemeni government last November, said the British Ambassador to Yemen, Mr. Victor Henderson, to Yemen Times in an interview on the occasion of the end of his tenure in office -interview on page 3.
The appeal letter was submitted by the lawyer of the prisoners, Mr. Bader Ba-Sunaid. However, Mr. Henderson stressed that there was no response yet to the appeal which was also discussed between the UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook and President Ali Abdullah Saleh when he stopped in London on his way to the Millennium Summit held in New York.
This appeal, which represents the focal point of differences between Sana’a and London was spotlighted by Mr. Keith Vaz, Foreign Office Minister for State during his visit to Sana’a last October. Yet, Mr. Henderson is hopeful that President Saleh will consider the appeal of the prisoners, charged with various security offenses, sympathetically. He also said that, in spite of the bombing of the USS Cole and the British Embassy last October, which unavoidably put Yemen in the spotlight again, it would be possible to rebuild the relations between the two countries as there were a lot of things in which they can help each other. We both share the interest of terrorism, he stressed.
Interview with Mr. Henderson in Interview Page.

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