Yemen cooperation with GCC states “excellent”: Interior minister

SANA’A, May 13 (Saba)- Interior minister Rashad al-Alimi praised the level of security cooperation relations between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. al-Alimi described in a statement to 26 September weekly, published on Thursday, the security cooperation with the kingdom as “brilliant and distinguished” and serves common security and stability. He said that Yemeni and Saudi joint teams paid field visits to different border areas to raise reports to interior ministers of both countries in order to make final agreement on the form of coordination to prevent smuggling and infiltration through the borders in light of a minute signed by the two interior ministers during the latest visit of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Riyadh. Al-Alimi said that the cooperation relations with GCC countries is good. He unveiled that that the coordination between Oman and Yemen “is going on to encourage trade exchange movement between the two countries” and Yemeni agricultural products began entering the markets of Oman that, he said, would be the entrance to markets in other Gulf states. NS/NS