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| UN Envoy meets with southern leaders |
| 2012-10-25 |
| [Yemen Post] The UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar met on Wednesday with big shots of the Southern Movement in the port city of Aden. Local sources cited that the meeting focused on the participation of the Southern Movement in the national dialogue and raise the southern case at the conference that will have no ceiling. They said Benomar considered the conference as a good chance to the southerners, pointing out that southern leaders put a number of conditions and demands. Sources said that the southerners conditioned that their participation must be 50 percent, the release of southern political detainees and halt of any arrests against southerners. Some factions of the Southern Movement such as the followers of the former president Ali Salem Al-Beedh and other groups boycotted the meeting, the sources added. Southern leaders have recently held meetings with a number of foreign ambassadors to Yemen and expressed their stances towards participation in the national dialogue conference. Media sources had quoted Benomar as saying that most Yemeni political forces have no clear visions about the southern case. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... sources of the technical committee of dialogue denied that the appointment of the dialogue conference scheduled for November 15 would be put off. The dialogue conference is an article of the power transfer deal mediated by the GCC states and it is designed to involve all political forces, civil society, youth movements and women in power. The conference be held without ceiling and the southern case will be the more important issue on the table. |
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