英国首相布朗决定1月28日在伦敦召开国际会议，讨论也门的极端势力问题。美国和欧盟对此决定表示支持，布朗还希望沙特阿拉伯和其他海湾国家领导人也参加会议。

布朗说，他希望国际社会不要拒绝向也门提供其对付极端主义所急需的支持。

布朗还表示，英国决定向也门提供1亿英镑（约合1.6亿美元）的援助，并将向其提供反恐情报。召开也门问题国际会议的目的是了解该国的反恐需求，讨论如何通过援助和改革来对付那里的极端势力。

Brown: Britain to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with U.S. in Yemen

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, says his country is working with the US to strengthen their counter-terrorism cooperation in Yemen.

He made these comments during an interview with the BBC. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the two countries will work together to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in the country.

Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, said, "I think we've got to also get back to the source of this, and that is Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and we've got to recognize that we've got a group of young people who have been radicalized as a result of teaching by extreme clerics, and we've got to recognize that we're fighting a battle for hearts and minds here as much as everything else. We will work with the American authorities, as General Petraeus is in Yemen at the moment, we'll work with them to improve the counter terrorism of the Yemeni authorities."

UK,US fund Yemeni anti-terrorism unit

An unnamed British official, said London is expected to give more than 160 million US dollars to Yemen in 2011 for counter-terrorism purposes. Over the weekend, US General David Petraeus met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sa-n'a to discuss coordination in the fight against al-Qaida.

Petraeus, announced that this year, Washington will more than double 67 million US dollars in counter-terrorism aid that it provided to Yemen in 2009.