The Diplomat
The new Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Spain, Aws Abdullah Ahmed Alaud, presented last week his Copies of Letters of Credence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of the Ambassadors’ introducer, María Sebastián de Erice.
Aws Abdullah Ahmed Alaud, who until his appointment as Yemen’s Ambassador to Madrid was his country’s Minister of Petroleum and Minerals, discussed the situation in the Arab country and the formation of the Presidential Leadership Council, as well as the bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to enhance and develop them in various fields, according to the Yemeni Embassy in Madrid, during the presentation of the Copias de Estilo last Tuesday, the 3rd.
The new Yemeni diplomatic representative went to the Spanish Embassy in Riyadh on 28 March to meet with the ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Jorge Hevia, who is in charge of matters relating to Yemen.
In 2012, Spain decided to close the Embassy’s facilities and did not appoint a new ambassador in Sana’a, after the end of the mission of Javier Hergueta, who had been the second Spanish diplomatic representative since the creation of the Embassy in 2006. It did, however, maintain a Chargé d’Affaires at the EU Delegation in Sana’a. However, in 2015, when the situation in Yemen worsened and civil war broke out in the country, the Spanish government opted to withdraw all Embassy staff from the European representation.
In contrast, Yemen has maintained its embassy in Madrid, which was vacant after the departure of Nabil Khalid Hassan Maisery.
