the President of the Yemen was to sign an agreement Saturday to leave power within a month in exchange for an agreement rejected by the protesters calling for his immediate eviction and the pursuit of immunity.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has held the poor Arabian Peninsula State for 33 years, in principle, accepted the agreement negotiated by the six-State Member Cooperation Council for the Gulf (GCC).
His departure would make Saleh the third leader to be ousted by a wave of popular uprisings against autocratic Arab who brought down the Presidents of the Tunisia and the Egypt.
Saleh, a skillful political operator regarded as a key U.S. ally against wing based at the al-Qaeda Yemen, forced mediators to split the signing ceremony two days by objecting to the presence of the Qatari officials.
Prime Minister of the State of the Qatar was the first to publicly declare the agreement of the Gulf seek resignation of the Saleh and Al Jazeera satellite channel has been criticized by Saleh for incitement to revolt in the Arab world, which was swept by pro-democracy demonstrations.
Thus while the Yemeni leader signs pact Sanaa, Vice President of his party will travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh Sunday official ceremony of signing by the opposition.
WAVE OF PROTEST
Tensions in the Yemen were defined above since gunmen shot dead 12 demonstrators in Sanaa Wednesday and the opposition warned that the violence could derail the transaction.
Tens of thousands of protests descended into the streets to the Friday Yemen, promising to remain there until Saleh actually smoking.
They also called for him to be brought to trial for corruption and death of 142 demonstrators estimated killed since the beginning of the events three months ago.
The agreement of the CCG offers Saleh and his entourage, including parents who run branches of the security forces, the immunity from prosecution.
Protests anti-Saleh in Sanaa Friday, ended by a funeral March for 12 demonstrators shot dead two days earlier, thousands from their hand to hand wooden coffins to their graves.
"People want the trial of the murderer," some anti-Saleh demonstrators shouted.
Analysts say the window of 30 days for Saleh to resign gives enough time for the disaffected forces of the old guard to incorporate the disorder to the Yemen, where half of the population possesses a firearm and al-Qaeda has taken foot in its mountainous regions.
The United States and the neighbouring oil giant Saudi Arabia want the deadlock Yemen resolved to avoid the chaos that could allow wing Yemen of al-Qaeda operate more freely.
Should the deal go by, Saleh appoints a Prime Minister of the opposition at the head of a transitional Government, which would be put in place for presidential elections in 60 days after he resigned.
Many demonstrators, already wary for the coalition of the opposition due to its presence in the Government in the past, called for them to return to the transaction.
"They lose Saleh does not adhere to the Convention.". "If it cannot find a reason to overturn it will trigger a war," said manifesting Sanaa Abdulsalam Mahmoud.
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