Yemen’s foreign minister Khaled al-Yamani has been widely criticized especially by his own people after pictures showed him sitting next to and smiling at Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu at a recent conference aimed at isolating Iran.
Al-Yamani was seated next to Netanyahu during the opening session of the Middle East conference in the Polish capital Warsaw. During a part of the session that was closed to the media the Yemeni minister was reported to have let Netanyahu use his microphone when his stopped working.
The pictures which were published by several media outlets have sparked a public backlash against al-Yamani although he tried to defend himself by claiming that a “protocol error” by the organizers of the conference landed him next to Netanyahu.
Social media users including noted figures from Yemen and other Arab countries strongly denounced the Yemeni foreign minister and some called for removing him from his post.
