Yemen

The UN Security Council will vote on April 14 on a draft resolution that demands Yemen's Huthi rebels pull back and punishes them with an arms embargo and sanctions, diplomats said.

Another 10 Romanian citizens and a family member were evacuated on Sunday from Yemen, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed in a release to AGERPRES.

Photo credit: (c) Liviu SOVA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

About 150 nationals of Russia and other countries including Bulgaria have left war-torn Yemen on board a second Russian plane on Sunday, TASS reported.

The Il-62 passenger aircraft landed at Chkalovskiy Airport near Moscow early on Sunday. This was after the second evacuation flight of a Russian plane from Yemen over the past 24 hours and the seventh one over the past two weeks.

Saudi-led air strikes hit a rebel base in central Yemen on April 12 and clashes raged in southern city Aden as France's top diplomat voiced Western support for the air campaign in Riyadh.

Russian Navy vessel Priazovye has helped to evacuate 308 people, including a Bulgarian national, from Yemen.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an went on two important visits to regional capitals over the last two months: The first was to Riyadh on March 2, while the other was to Tehran on April 7.

Pakistan's parliament voted on April 10 to stay out of the conflict in Yemen, rejecting Saudi demands for Islamabad to join its military coalition against Shiite Houthi rebels, while international organizations and Turkey have called for a "humanitarian cease-fire." 

The Red Cross said it flew an aircraft into Sanaa on April 10, delivering its first medical aid to Yemen's capital since a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes against Shiite rebels.

"Trapped" Serbian citizen follower of Wahhabis?

BELGRADE -- The parents of a Serbian citizen who is asking the Serbian government to help him leave Yemen say that he traveled there "on his own initiative."

Jusuf Gegic, the father of Muhedin Gegic, told the daily Vecernje Novosti that he did not see his son for the past 12 years.

Three Romanian citizens have arrived back in the country from Yemen on Thursday, via Djibouti, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informed in a media release.

Photo credit: (c) Liviu SOVA / AGERPRES ARHIVE