Saudi Arabia evacuates staff from Yemen embassy
‘Saudi Arabia has suspended the activities of its embassy in Yemen after the United States and a number of European countries shut their embassies in the Arab country where the Ansarullah revolutionaries have taken control of the capital, Sana’a.
“Due to the deteriorating security and political situation in the Yemeni capital, Saudi Arabia has suspended all embassy operations in Sana’a,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The statement further noted that Saudi Arabia, as the first Arab country, has “evacuated all its staff” from the embassy and that its diplomats “have arrived safely in the kingdom.”‘
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