Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has invited important international partners to a meeting in London to discuss how to counter radicalisation in Yemen after last week's failed attack on a US-bound jet.
The meeting on January 28 will be held in parallel with an international conference on Afghanistan on the same day in the UK capital.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian who is reported to have told US investigators he was trained by al-Qaeda in Yemen, is accused of trying to blow up a US passenger jet as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day.
In a statement on the Downing Street website, Brown said: "The international community must not deny Yemen the support it needs to tackle extremism."
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