Yemeni opposition rejects Saleh position on delivery

SANAA- the Friday Yemen opposition has rejected the position of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on a revised plan for the Gulf to relieve him of the power, as gathered for mass demonstrations against him and for the security forces.

The ruling party, said Thursday night that Saleh would not sign the agreement before the end of the representatives of the ruling party and the opposition had signed. Leader of the opposition Sultan Atwani said Reuters Friday his coalition would not accept.

The plan proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council envisages Saleh resign 30 days after the signing of the agreement in the hope that this will end three bitter months of protests demanding his resignation, which at least 130 people were killed.

But the opposition suspicious Saleh, a political survivor cunning for more than 30 years and until now a key ally of the United States and Saudi Arabia in the fight against al-Qaida.

"Us won't accept unless the President sign as a party to the agreement, and we call the CCG and the United States and the European Union to put pressure on Saleh to sign the initiative", said Atwani.

Saleh appeared to sign the agreement, which guarantees him and his family immunity and aid prosecutions, but last week refused to put his name to the transaction in his capacity as President.

The proposed GCC plan amended Thursday in which 15 representatives of the party in power and the political opposition would ink the plan in Sana'a, only Saleh and the head of the opposition, but in vain.

ARABS WANT CALM YEMEN

A GCC source has said the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Gulf Reuters may try to meet in Riyadh Sunday to discuss the political crisis of the Yemen.

Arab Gulf States including oil giant Saudi Arabia, close to the Yemen, are eager to see peace return to the Yemen, a poor state who have difficulties to handle internal rebellions and home to the branch of the Arabian Peninsula active al-Qaeda.

But demonstrators anti-Saleh, berserk on corruption and poverty, eager to see Saleh accountable and fearing to be sold by politicians of the opposition, are increasingly impatient at the delay.

Large crowds were expected to turn out after prayers Friday, for and against the Government, and the security forces took up positions in the streets of the capital Sanaa Thursday evening. Residents, said that they had heard shots.

There are also signs Saleh and his party more go away from the proposal of the CCG in insisting protests must stop in the Covenant to move, a move likely to irritate the opposition and infuriate protest camps in Sana'a, Taiz and elsewhere.

An official of the ruling party, "success of the initiative requires that both parties to stop all elements that could cause of policies or security tensions... that will necessarily include end of sit-ins and protests and acts of sabotage," said Thursday.

Meanwhile Saudi State GCC Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani said that he was "optimistic about the achievement of the objective in the near future", the news agency reported.

"The disagreements on the procedures for the signing of the agreement will be resolved through consultations between the Council of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GCC and the Secretary General of the GCC," he was quoted as saying.