Intensive preparations are being made to the visit of President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to the United States and Britain scheduled to be in late September, the military-run 26 September Newspaper said.
Hadi is set to meet with high-ranking US and British officials to discuss cooperation relations between Yemen and the two friendly states.
Well-informed sources said that Hadi will take part in the annual meeting of the of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.They affirmed that Hadi will deliver a speech about updates of Yemen's situations and efforts of the political settlement, singling out that he will hold talks with US officials about mutual cooperation and efforts of counterterrorism.According to the sources, Hadi will also take part in Yemen's Friend Group on 27 September in which financial pledges will be given to Yemen to fund development projects, help it resume essential services and assist refugees.The US has increased its aid to Yemen to $337 million so far this year, the biggest aid sum in the bilateral relations between the two countries.Meanwhile, the newspaper cited that Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basindwa will participate in the donor conference that will be held in Riyadh on September 5-6, indicting that ministers of the GCC states, UN Envoy Jamal Binomar and representative of the EU, US and other donors will take part in the meeting.The donor states seek to support Yemen during the transition stage to get it out of its economic crisis that was resulted in by political instability and violence.