Saudi official says, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not return to his country….

 He said that the president will not return to Yemen and it had not been decided where he would stay.

 On the other hand, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh s government vowed the wounded leader would return to his country within days.

Abdo al-Janadi, Yemen’s deputy minister of information said suggestions that the president would not return were untrue and were a bid to damage Yemen-Saudi relations.

“We are largely preparing to celebrate the return of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the coming few days, they are official and popular preparations,” al-Janadi added, without specifying a date. The fate of Saleh, forced to undergo surgery in Saudi Arabia after an attack on his palace, is at the centre of a political crisis that has paralysed the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state and threatened to tip it into civil war.

 Months of protests against Saleh culminated in open warfare in the capital Sanaa last month, after he ducked out of the last of a series of deals that his wealthier Gulf neighbours crafted to ease the Yemeni leader from power. He has not been seen in public since the attack on June 3, which left him with burns and shrapnel wounds.