President Abdu Rabo Masnour Hadi has strongly refused talks to Al-Qaeda that takes control on some parts of the southern Abyan and Shabwa governorates, a state-run newspaper, 26 September said on Thursday.
It further quoted well-informed source as saying that Hadi refuses dialogue with al-Qaeda and all other terrorist groups, stressing that the president is determined to pursue the terrorist organization and eradicate it through all possible means.
The source affirmd that Hadi will deal with al-Qaeda via laws, military and security settlement, pointing out that the terrorist groups do not know dialogue.
"Terrorist groups committed crimes against troops, citizens and foreigners who come to visit Yemen" it added.
Al-Qaeda militants took control a year ago on Abyan and some areas of Shabwa as they exploited turbulences that hit Yemen in 2011 and that led to the outset of the former president Ali Saleh.
Western countries including the United Sates support efforts of Yemen's president to defeat Al-Qaeda.
Media sources said the Yemeni army prepares to launch large-scale attack to cleanse areas controlled by Al-Qaeda in Abyan.
Hadi had vowed in address delivered before Yemeni officers and troops last week that he will defeat Al-Qaeda.
However, Al-Qaeda attacked hours after the address a military position in Abyan, killed and captured dozens of the Yemeni troops.
The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said on Tuesday.