Ethiopia decorates President Saleh millennium medal

ADDIS ABABA, (Saba)- Ethiopia has awarded President Ali Abdullah Saleh the Ethiopian own Millennium medal in recognition of his efforts to develop mutual relations between the two countries. In a meeting held in Addis Ababa, the director general of the department of middle east, Asia and Australia in the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry Mahdi Ahmed handed over the medal to the Yemeni ambassador to Ethiopia Jazem Abdul-Khaliq al-Aghbary. The Ethiopian government has given public service employees extra two days off to celebrate the country’s third millennium beginning Wednesday. Government offices will remain closed for the rest of the week from the first day of the Ethiopian New Year 2000 through Friday, according to a government announcement Tuesday. YA/AF Saba