Saleh of the Yemen due to the agreement to sign resignation finally

SANAA- President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the Yemen was due to sign a Pact Sunday to become the third Arab leader ousted this year by protests, the strongest diplomatic pressure this time after two choirs at the last minute.

Hundreds of Loyalist Saleh blocked roads to protest against the deal, stacking stones in the streets as makeshift barriers and blocking the car, while overall city anti-Saleh protests which continued for three months has attracted tens of thousands of people.

More than 170 demonstrators were killed in a repression of demonstrations demanding an end to 30 years of Saleh rule, part of the wave of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East that has swept the leaders of the Tunisia and the Egypt.

Neighbouring Gulf, anxious to avoid the countries in the Arab world's poorest is degenerating into anarchy, negotiated an agreement to alleviate Saleh of power in 30 days, with the promise of immunity from prosecution. The opposition has signed on Saturday.

"We reject signing the initiative of the Gulf and the coup against legitimacy", some pro-Saleh demonstrators yelled their car speakers.

Saleh, a shrewd political survivor and Allied veteran of the United States, has been pressed by its neighbors and Washington to sign the agreement, he argued last signing, on 18 May.

Foreign Ministers of the Arab States of the Gulf who negotiated it should discuss Yemen at a meeting Sunday in Riyadh.

The US President Barack Obama said in a speech on US policy in the Arab world Thursday Saleh had to "give its commitment to transfer power.

Yemen became the home to one of the most powerful wings of al Qaeda and the fear of the United States and Saudi Arabia aggravation of disorders that could give activists space to thrive.

Yemen also faces revolts by Shi'ite rebels in the North and the separatists in the South.

Protesters have threatened to intensify their campaign against Saleh walking on government buildings, a tactic which led to bloodshed over this month when security forces opened fire to stop them. Strikes have uncovered end trade in many cities and events have created shortages of fuel.