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| Prominent southern leader denies intentions of returning to Yemen soon |
| 2012-03-17 |
| [Yemen Post] Haider Abu Baker al-Atas, a prominent southern leader and former Premier, denied on Thursday what media outlets reported earlier citing an unidentified government official.He dismissed such reports that he intends to come back to Yemen soon as baseless, affirming that it have nothing to do with reality, and asking media outlets to seek accuracy in their news stories and to follow professional journalistic standards. He further denied that Abdul-Karim al-Eryani, leading figure in the former ruling regime (GPC), had met with him in Germany as a part of an effort to convince him take part in the upcoming national dialogue to kick off soon. With regards to his return to the leadership of the Yemeni Socialist Party, he said "we don't any longer believe previous thoughts"--perhaps referring to the Socialist principles of social equality--considering what has been reported by the media as an insult to the good relationship with Yassin Saeed Numan, the Socialist Party head. Al-Aras concluded with urging the southern leaders to work together in order to come up with a common, unified vision to resolve the southern issue. Southern leaders are still divided in every thing ,with some calling for federalism, others call for complete independence, and some others hold on to the unification. |
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