Russian diplomats unhurt in bomb attack on Yemeni defense minister
MOSCOW. Sept 12 (Interfax) - None of the Russian diplomatic staff was hurt when Yemeni Defense Minister Muhammad Nasir Ahmad Ali was attacked on Tuesday right near the Russian Embassy.
"The incident occurred in the vicinity of the Russian Embassy in the capital city of Sanaa. Fragments of the bomb reached our territory. No one was hurt," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website on Wednesday.
"In the context of renewed tensions in Yemen we are pledging our unconditional solidarity with the Yemeni leadership which has been consistently combating the terrorist threat in an bid to guarantee stability in the country," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Amid military-political instability in Yemen, the government's and party associations' insistent steps to prepare and launch a broad national dialogue are particularly important. Only dialogue can lead to solutions to the key problems of the transitional period, including the situation in the political, economic and humanitarian spheres," it said.
As a co-chair of the profile working group of the guarantors of inter-Yemeni agreements on peaceful power transfer Russia is determined to further assist efforts to consolidate Yemeni society for the sake of solving the urgent tasks facing the country, it said.
A car filled with explosives blew up where the Yemeni defense minister's motorcade was traveling in Sanaa. The defense minister was not hurt, but 13 other people were killed and 14 wounded.