Home > Local News
  France warns its citizens against visiting Yemen
  Written By:
  Article Date: November 26, 2007 

 

Head of Middle East and North Africa at the French Foreign Ministry office John Felix promised on Wednesday to reconsider the warning issued by his ministry on its website and concerning traveling to some areas in Yemen.

 

This move came after Yemeni Ambassador to Paris Amir Al-Aidrous had met Felix and requested him to lift the warning, especially when the country is stable and when Interior Ministry takes precautionary measures aiming to protect tourists and foreign community in Yemen including those areas mentioned in the warning.

 

In his request to the French Foreign Ministry, Al-Aidrous assured there is no reason in keeping this warning published. The request came within the frame of promotional tourist campaign held nowadays in France and attended by Tourism Minister Nabil Al-Faqih, head of travel and tourism agencies union Yahya Mohammed Abdullah Saleh.

 

The campaign is organized in Marseille city, the second-largest city in France and targets the French tourists and Yemenis living in France.