"Of course, we don't support the presence of foreign forces in the region," he said at his residence here in the Yemeni capital.
All the French troops would return home by air, taking off from the Yemeni capital, San'a, situated deep in the interior.
The refugees were demonstrating over concerns that they were endangered by the instability in the Yemeni capital.
A southern missile crashed into the Yemeni capital Monday, causing several casualties, the official news agency Saba said.
A missile hit the Yemeni capital, killing at least four people and injuring 27, correspondents there reported.
The others fled in panic when the missile slammed into the Yemeni capital, killing at least 13 and wounding about 100 others, according to official figures.
I was thirty thousand feet over the Red Sea, en route to the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
Clashes occurred in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
It is reported that 3,000 university students are demonstrating in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital:
The latter is regarded as the definitive work on the Yemeni capital.