almotamar.net - Yemen's Foreign Minister Dr Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said Tuesday that Jamal al-Badawi who is now spending an imprisonment sentence over the explosion of the American destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni regional waters, is a Yemeni citizen and the Yemeni law and constitution do not allow handing him over.

Minister al-Qirbi clarification came in his comment on statements of the US ambassador to Sana'a on Monday during his meeting with Yemeni female journalists. The American ambassador asked in his statements the Yemeni government to hand over Jamal al-Badawi to the United States as part of the security cooperation signed between the two countries.

Al-Jumhouria newspaper for today quoted the foreign minister as explaining that the American ambassador concerning the issue of sheikh al-Mouayad imprisoned by the American authorities and his receiving a sentence punishment is still too early and there is still an appeal.

The minister said since the beginning Yemen considered the way of arresting al-Mouayad as violating the international law and rules of human rights and that Hamas was being supported by many countries and Arab organisations and that is not considered a crime.

In conclusion of his statements al-Qirbi praised the level of the Yemeni-American relations and that they are good in all fields, calling on all journalists not invest the news in a mistaken way offending the homeland.