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Less than two weeks after President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen said he would travel to the United States for medical treatment and to calm tensions in his country, officials in his government said he had reversed course and would not travel because of escalating turmoil at home.
Yemeni officials and the state news agency framed Saleh’s decision as motivated by pleas from members of his party to stay and serve the “national interest.” Labor strikes and new violence in recent weeks had compounded an ongoing political crisis that began with a popular uprising against Saleh’s three decades of rule.
There had been hopes that Saleh’s departure might ease that crisis.
Denver Post wire services
