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| GCC Looking for Proxies to Sign Power Transition Deal in Yemen |
| 2011-05-06 |
| [Yemen Post] As hope remains that the GCC initiative to tackle the Yemeni the crisis goes ahead, a newspaper said on Thursday that the GCC Secretary General has asked the ruling and opposition parties to pick 30 officials, 15 from both each side, to sign the West-backed deal. Al-Oula Newspaper quoted informed sources that the opposition had told the GCC member states it was considering the proposal after the EU urged the opposition to accept that President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... signs the initiative as head of the General People's Congress, the ruling party, not as President. Lately, fears started to grow that the last effort to solve the months-long political crisis in Yemen snagged, despite the official acceptance from the parties here, after President rejected to sign the deal during the first visit of the GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani to Sana'a last week. In the meantime, Al-Zayani is expected to return to Yemen for talks over the GCC proposal on which many pin hope amid the continuous protests that have largely affected the national economy. The proposal called for Saleh to resign in a month and hand power to a new vice president and forming a national unity government from the current government and the opposition. The transitional government will suggest constitutional amendments that should be put for vote by the people and prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections. |
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