Yemeni president heads to UAE for GCC tour

  Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi is set to visit the UAE on Sunday as the first stop of a Gulf tour, including Kuwait and Oman. Hadi's visit is aimed at enhancing bilateral relations and comes at a sensitive and crucial stage for Yemen in the wake of the country's path towards political reform according to a GCC-brokered initiative, reported Yemen's state news agency, SABA. According to the reports, Hadi had said he would be meeting the leaders of each of the three GCC states, including UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, during his first stop, HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Saeed.