International Development written question – answered at on 3 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what meetings were held during the Minister of State's visit to Yemen; and what the outcomes of those meetings were.
During our visit, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and I met President Ali Abdullah Saleh. We delivered three messages to him. First, on the need for his Government to make progress on the national dialogue with the opposition parties, in order to allow free and fair parliamentary elections to be held this year. Second, on the need for the Government of Yemen to produce a prioritised and budgeted Development Plan for Poverty Reduction, in order to increase the effectiveness of Yemeni and donor efforts to tackle poverty and deprivation. Finally, we requested intensified Yemeni efforts against Al Qaeda.
We also met leaders of the Yemeni political opposition and encouraged them to engage in the national dialogue process.
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