President receives congratulations cables on National Day

SANA’A, May 21 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh received on Wednesday cables of congratulations on the occasion of 18th Anniversary of the National Day of the Republic of Yemen from Qaboos Bin Saeed Sultan of Oman, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-thani Emir of Qatar, Abdullah II Bin Hussein King of Jordan, Colonel Muammar al Qaddafi the Libyan Leader, President of Algeria Abdul-Aziz Bou Taflika, Tunisian President Zain Al-Abdin Ben Ali and President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas. He also received similar cables from President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Ghana John Agyekum Kufour, Vaclav Klaus, Crotian President Stjepan Mesic, Australian Governor General Michael Jeffery, Emperor of Japan Aki Hito and King of Belgium Albert II. For his part, president Saleh sent back thank-you cables to these congratulation letters. NN/AM Saba