General Ali Mohsen's announcement came one day after both his forces, and troops loyal to outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it..., began withdrawing from the capital Sanaa as part of the Gulf-brokered peace deal.
"We are ready to support the Gulf initiative, which was bolstered by Security Council resolution 2014," Mohsen told news hounds at a news conference in Sanaa, referring to the resolution adopted by the UN body in October endorsing the Gulf peace proposal. He was speaking before a meeting with representatives of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, the Gulf Cooperative Council and the five permanent members of the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
Security Council, as part of efforts to win support from factions excluded from the peace accord signed in Soddy Arabia last month. The diplomats had earlier met separatist leaders in Aden and UN envoy Jamal Benomar visited sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians in Saada province in northern Yemen. Last month, Saleh signed the accord to transfer his powers to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ushering in an opposition-led Yemeni government to lead the country to early presidential elections in February 2012.