[15/June/2009]

SANA'A, June 15 (Saba) – Saudi Arabia has suspended visa processing and other travel measures for Yemeni laborers.

The move comes in protest at the slowness of the Yemeni government in taking appropriate measures concerning the smuggling of a Saudi girl by a Yemeni young man into his country, sources at the Saudi embassy in Sana'a said. 

www.newsyemen.net cited the sources as saying that a parliamentarian in Yemen's western province of Hodeida is part in the matter, a claim which the Yemeni official Ziyad Ali Sagheer Shami denies.

Shami said a Yemeni young man from Zabeed, who said he married to a 21-year-old Saudi girl, visited him three weeks ago and asked for help.

But Shami did not say what kind of help the young was asking for.

"I told him to go to the Saudi embassy and discuss the matter there," he said.

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