,... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
taken to Soddy Arabia for wounds suffered during an attack on his palace earlier this month, will return to the country within days, a Yemeni official said on Friday.
"The presidency has confirmed to me that the president will return within coming days," Abdu al-Janadi, Yemen's deputy information minister told Rooters. He did not specify a particular date.
"The president's health is improving continuously," he said.
Saleh's health and fate have been the subject of conflicting reports since the attack on June 3 that maimed him and members of his cabinet, and he has not appeared in public since then.
Saudi and Yemeni official media have reported that Saleh has spoken with King Abdullah as well as Bahrain's king in recent days. Saleh's formal renunciation of power, after months of protests against him, is a principal demand of his oppenents, including tribal figures and a group of opposition parties.
Earlier, a Saudi official said that mbattled Yemeni President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"The Yemeni president will not return to Yemen," the official said, requesting anonymity.
"It has not been decided where he will stay," the official added, apparently suggesting that Saleh might eventually leave Soddy Arabia for another country.
The official did not specify whether the decision not to return home was taken by Saleh himself.
The veteran leader was flown to Riyadh on June 4 on board a Saudi medical aircraft, a day after he was maimed in a bomb kaboom at a mosque inside his Sanaa presidential compound.
He has not been seen in public since the attack.