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Yemeni government says Saleh to return from Saudi in days

17 June 2011 17:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, taken to Saudi Arabia for wounds suffered during an attack on his palace earlier this month, will return to the country within days, a Yemeni official said on Friday, APA reports quoting â€œReutersâ€.
"The presidency has confirmed to me that the president will return within coming days," Abdu al-Janadi, Yemen’s deputy information minister told Reuters. He did not specify a particular date.
"The president’s health is improving continuously," he said.
Saleh’s health and fate have been the subject of conflicting reports since the attack on June 3 that wounded him and members of his cabinet, and he has not appeared in public since then.
Saudi and Yemeni official media have reported that Saleh has spoken with King Abdullah as well as Bahrain’s king in recent days. Saleh’s formal renunciation of power, after months of protests against him, is a principal demand of his opponents, including tribal figures and a group of opposition parties.