Yemeni government said on Saturday it respects the choice of Egyptian people, whose popular revolution forced the resignation of Hosni Mubarak on Friday, vowing to support post-Mubarak rule, official Saba news agency reported.

"The Yemeni government has confidence in the Egypt's Higher Military Council to run the country's affairs in the transition period," Saba quoted an unnamed spokesman of the government as saying.

"As Yemen was always keen to strengthen relations with Egypt, Yemen today renews its stance of supporting the Egyptian people in everything that would bring to them stability, progress and development," the spokesman said.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people across the country went to streets on Friday evening to celebrate the Egyptian revolution and fall of Mubarak.