[HIGHLIGHTS] The Russian Foreign Ministry called the choice of Moscow symbolic for the first visit of the Prime Minister of Yemen

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the choice of Moscow symbolic for the first visit of the Prime Minister of Yemen. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak chose Russia for his first visit as head of government.

Initially bin Mubarak was supposed to visit Russia as Minister of Foreign Affairs, but he was appointed to the post of Prime Minister. “Therefore, in his new capacity as the head of the government of Yemen, he is making his firstVisit to the Russian Federation, which in itself is symbolic,” Mikhail Bogdanov concluded.