The Yemeni News Agency(Saba) has cancelled on Tuesday a news story about a congratulation cable of President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on the 66th anniversary of Syria's Independent Day.
The news story that angered many Yemeni people, in particular those protesters who took to streets against the regime of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was called off two hours after it was published.
Yemen analysts said that the news story aimed to affect Yemeni relationships with the neighboring Gulf States and the United States and the European Unions States that seek to oust Al-Assad regime.
Meanwhile, a source of the Presidency Office denied that Hadi sent a congratulation cable to Al-Assad, pointing out that Secretary-General of the Presidency Office Abdul-Hadi Al-Hamdani who is close to Saleh was behind the news story.
A source of Saba told Aden Online that the agency received the news story from Hadi's media secretary, Yahya Al-Arasi, pointing out that the agency publishes any news sent from Hadi's office without any amendments.
The source said Al-Arasi belongs to the Alawite Sect in Yemen and he sympathizes with Al-Aassad regime, pointing out that his tends could affect on Hadi'ss regional and international reputation.
"While Yemeni protesters, politicians and activists demand to expel the Syrian Ambassador from Yemen, Hadi's assistant has strong relations with Alawite groups" he added.
According to the source, Al-Arasi had invited journalists to attend a seminar titled (the Esmaili Sect as a model to equal citizenship) and that the seminar was postponed to unknown reasons, pointing out that he also has kinship relationship with the Houthi family in Saada.