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| Yemen Opposition Rejects Fourth Version of GCC Plan |
| 2011-05-16 |
| [Yemen Post] The GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif Al-Zayani met on Sunday with head of the Dialogue Preparatory Committee Muhammad BaSondwa and discussed suitable approaches to start implementing a seemingly failed GCC initiative to end the Yemeni crisis. " I received Al-Zayani personally and told him that the Joint Meeting Parties, the opposition bloc, saw that dealing with the third version of the initiative just wastes the time," BaSondwa said, as he added that the opposition had rejected the fourth version in full also. Al-Zayani arrived in Sana'a on Saturday night in a new bid to revive the GCC West-backed initiative. It was his third visit to the country after the proposal was initially offered in early April. On the previous visits, Al-Zayani tried to convince President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... to finalize the deal as soon as possible as the unrest continued to further affect the country, but in every time he failed. President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... told the GCC head in late April that he will not sign the power transition deal as president of Yemen, but as head of the governing party. The decision raised fears whether the deal will hold and triggered the opposition to warn of protest escalation and urge the GCC countries to pressure Saleh to sign. The JMP told Al-Zanayni today that the GCC initiative does not have any meaning and that he should talk to Saleh, not them, to start its implementation. Earlier, Al-Zayani met with officials from the General People's Congress, the ruling party, including President Saleh's political advisor Abdul Karim Al-Eryani. Al-Eryani was said to have told Al-Zayani that the ruling party proposed a mechanism to implement the initiative calling for timeframes to address the south and Saada issues and ending the protests and sit-ins before Saleh resigns. The proposal was revealed earlier this month when the ruling party said that the initiative terms should be implemented in sequence. Later tonight, Al-Zayani is expected to meet with President Saleh and Foreign Minister within the caretaker government Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi, as hope faints his effort will put an end to the current situation in Yemen. On Friday, Qatar withdrew from the initiative, justifying the move due to the delays and stalling of President Saleh to finalize it. The youth-led protesters in the squares of change and freedom in many of the Yemeni cities rejected any deal not ensuring an immediate, unconditional resignation of Saleh. Under the GCC proposal, Saleh will resign in a month since reaching a final agreement with the opposition in return for immunity from prosecution granted to him and officials in his regime after leaving office. It also called for forming a national unity government from the ruling and opposition parties. Meantime, the antigovernment protesters said they will continue their escalation plan and that next Tuesday they will control key public buildings in various cities. In the last few weeks, the security forces and the government supporters stepped up the crackdown on them, leaving tens killed and thousands injured. |
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