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Sunday, April 12, 2015
French FM in Riyadh to back Yemen coalition
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrench Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is in Riyadh to express support for Saudi Arabia’s battle against Iran-backed rebels in neighboring Yemen.
“Concerning Yemen, we are here to demonstrate our support, especially political, to the Saudi authorities,” Fabius tells reporters as he begins a series of meetings with the Saudi leadership including King Salman.
The kingdom, an important ally of France, leads a coalition of nine Arab countries which since March 26 has carried out airstrikes against the Houthi Shiite rebels who overran the Yemeni capital Sanaa in September.
Riyadh feared the rebels would take over the entire country and move it into the orbit of Shiite Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia’s regional rival.
— AFP
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