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| Yemen Ruling Party to Discuss Saleh Mandate over GCC Plan |
| 2011-09-07 |
| [Yemen Post] The General People's Congress, Yemen's ruling party, meets on Tuesday to discuss how to start dialogue with the opposition, the GCC and the U.S. and EU ambassadors after an order from President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... to find a suitable mechanism to sign and start implementing a GCC-brokered power transition deal in the country without delay. Al-Mithaq newspaper, the mouthpiece of the party, said on Monday the GPC General Committee will hold a meeting chaired by Vice President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, the first deputy of the GPC chief, to discuss the mandate and find suitable ways to start talks with the JMP, the GCC Foreign Ministers and the U.S. and EU envoys to Sana'a. The meeting will discuss a number of political, economic and organizational reports within the general policy of the GPC for the coming period, the paper said. In his speech on the eve of Eid Al-Fitr, President Saleh said he had assigned the GPC General Committee to talk to the opposition and foreigners involved in the efforts to tackle the Yemeni crisis to sign the GCC plan without postponement. Under the GCC plan, Saleh will hand power to his deputy in a month and will call for new presidential elections in ninety days; the opposition will be responsible for forming a national unity government; and a military committee will be responsible for the army restructuring. Saleh, convalescing in Soddy Arabia after a June liquidation attempt, had backed out of signing the plan three times at the last minute; the latest in May after the ruling and opposition parties already inked it in Sana'a with the GCC Secretary General in attendance. Yemen has been gripped by seven-month protests calling for the ouster of the regime, and in recent months, the country has started experiencing severe crises topped by fuel crisis and associated price hikes as well as battles with Al-Qaeda in the south and insecurity in other parts. The problems along with most recent signs of a possible civil war have triggered fears about the country's future at a time when the international community is exerting major efforts to solve the political crisis to maintain Yemen's stability and unity. |
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