UN Security Council has reached an agreement to discuss a draft resolution StozaahBritain to the members of the Council on Wednesday. Following the closed-door consultations, view the UN envoy to Yemen Jamal bin Omar report on his recent visit tothis country.
And made Britain and other European countries in the Security Council draft resolution,said the German ambassador to the United Nations, Peter Viag The time has come for action, and demanded that the Council will be active, and to request from President AliAbdullah Saleh to sign and accept the transition proposed by the GCC. "
The Security Council last month adopted a declaration supporting the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council states that the departure of President Saleh and the establishment of an interim administration. But the president's ruling 33 years agorejected. But adopting the resolution would have a greater political weight to convincePresident Saleh.
Russia and China
Western diplomats said that it was expected that Russia and China supported theBritish draft resolution, despite their objections last week on a resolution condemningSyria because of its suppression of demonstrators demanding democracy.
The diplomat said "Russia and China supported the move of the Council on Yemen, The role of the armed opposition in Yemen to change things, want stability and seem to see the situation in Yemen in a different way from Syria."
The Security Council resolutions are legally binding, said the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Copenhagen "to be on the benefit that isimmediately political reforms crucial to enable people to live a better life without fear of repression, and there must be a full protection of human rights" .
Warning bin Omar In his statements after the meeting of the Security Council warned the UN envoy to Yemen Jamal bin Omar, the risks of continued political deadlock and the deterioration of security and economic situation in Yemen, and stressed that the security situation "deteriorated dramatically, especially since five or six provinces are no longer under the control of the government."
He explained that there was agreement between the ruling party and the opposition notice a transition period of two years during which the governing elections. But President Saleh refused to be bound by this Agreement.
He ibn Umar that the political process "in trouble", he said, adding that "during our consultations with the Yemenis, there was a sense of urgency the need to address the crisis, especially as it has been going on in January last, and the result of which the repercussions of humanitarian, security and economic"
He stressed that "no solution can be found only in the context of a process led by Yemeni and collect all the political forces in the country."
For its part, affirmed in charge of humanitarian operations in the United Nations Valerie Amos that "the conflict that is added to the poverty and drought in Yemen caused by the development of a daily struggle for survival for millions of people."
Amos said in a statement: "Every evening third Yemenis go to bed hungry. In some parts of the country's children suffer from malnutrition, three of which are of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world." She stressed that "hospitals and clinics are overcrowded and do not work, and access to drinking water has become more difficult."
Protests Yesterday, tens of thousands of Yemenis in Sanaa to ask the UN Security Council for the invitation to step down.
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent in Yemen clashes that broke out last night between President Saleh's forces and armed supporters of the revolution north of Taiz.
In the city of Aden in southern Yemen, a mass demonstration was condemned what it described as slip security and bombings in the city. The participants pledged to drop the system in favor of his trial and on what they described as "crimes committed by them," as called for international community to pressure on Saleh to leave office and step down immediately.
Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies
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