Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih expressed thanks to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, and Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for the care and attention enjoyed by the president and the senior leaders of the state present in the kingdom's hospitals. This was stated by Dr. Mohammad Alsyani, chief physician accompanying the Yemeni president in a statement carried today by the Yemeni News Agency. Dr. Mohammad Alsyani said, "The Yemeni president considered the care and attention enjoyed by him and those accompanying him as not unusual by the brethren in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who always stand by the Yemeni people and as underlining the strength of the brotherly, solid and historic relations binding the two brotherly countries and peoples." Dr. Alsyani said the health of the president is constantly improving.