Govt to evacuate each and every Filipino in Yemen

Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario wants to impose a deadline for repatriating Filipinos in strife-torn Yemen because not setting one puts at risk their lives, as well as those of Philippine Embassy personnel there.

“I’d like to put a deadline frankly because precisely we are putting our people there at risk . . . but our policy is we leave no one behind, so they [Filipinos] feel they can wait forever and when they are ready to come home, we will be there for them,” he said during an interview on ANC’s “Headstart” on Wednesday.