Almotamar.net - Yemen’s foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi has told the parliament on Wednesday that not moving 98 Yemeni detainees out of Guantanamo by the United States of America was attributed to Yemen’s refusal of the American conditions, which, if they were accepted, he said the government would have faced questioning by the MPs.

In his reply to a question by an MP from Islah bloc in the parliament the Minister said the government gives Yemeni prisoners outside al the attention. And concerning the Yemeni detainees in Iraq, he said there is communication with the Iraqi government to release them, pointing out that the security agreement between America and Iraq contributed to complicate the pending security issues.
On the Yemeni prisoners Amin al-Bakri and Fadi al-Maqalih imprisoned by American forces in Bagram base in Afghanistan, al-Qirbi clarified that Yemen has communicated via its embassies in Washington and Islam Abad and also via the American embassy in Sana’a and representatives of the Red Cross in order to visit them by one of Yemeni diplomats in Pakistan but without receiving a reply from the Americans and their embassy in Sana’a reported that the prisoners health is good.