Brussels, 06/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - During the evening of Monday 5 May, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton condemned “in the strongest terms” the killing in Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the same day of a French member of the team providing security to the EU delegation, and the wounding of two others - a Frenchman and his Yemeni driver - when they were in their car. “The EU's presence in Yemen aims only to assist the country in its transition to democracy and in its economic development. To target persons engaged in this effort is evil and senseless”, Ashton stated in her press release.
Ashton called on the government of Yemen to “take all necessary measures to restore security in the country, without which no progress on other challenges” facing Yemen will be possible.
France's President François Hollande very strongly condemned this “cowardly attack”, and France's Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius said that he had learned with “indignation and sadness” of the “murder of a French national in Sanaa - a victim of shooting at the time he was on mission for the delegation of the European Union in Yemen”. (CG)