President of Yemen Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi met here on Sunday with the US Deputy Undersecretary of State for Middle East Affairs Barbara Leaf. During the meeting they discussed bilateral cooperation relations and means to develop them. The Yemeni President showcased the efforts for implementing the Gulf Initiative and the achievements of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference. He lauded the US assistance to Yemen and US President Barack Obama’s constructive cooperation for sparing Yemen the scourge of division and war since the outbreak of the crisis in early 2011, hailing the positive effects of such cooperation.