Yemen calls for the Security Council not to escalate

Protesters in Sanaa, chanting slogans demanding the departure of the benefit (Reuters)

Called on the government of Yemen to the UN Security Council not to issue decisions that may complicate the crisis in the country according to the plan, following launch file Yemeni Council and seek to adopt a resolution calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
In the meantime, accused the Yemeni Ministry of Defense JMP opposition set up what he described as "a plan for military escalation" and doing the killing and destruction in Sanaa, comes a day after the revolution of the youth organization of peaceful demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday.
Quoted by the official Yemeni news agency Saba quoted an official source in the government as saying that Sanaa hopes that the Security Council deals with the crisis of Yemen "out of keenness to find a solution to it and not take any decisions that increase the complexity."
The source reiterated the commitment of the Yemeni government initiative by Gulf states to transfer power to Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and the launch of phase transition, pointing out that President Saleh works to push for the signing of the implementation of the initiative establishes a mechanism Gulf, he said.
The Security Council began to discuss the crisis Tuesday Yemen amid claims by protesters in Sana'a international intervention to pay the benefit to step down.
And presentation of the UN envoy to Yemen Jamal bin Omar report to the Security Council on the situation in the country and around the efforts to end the ongoing crisis since January last year.
And put Britain and other European countries in the Security Council draft resolution on Yemen is expected to be presented to the Member States in the coming days.
He 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 ask the President for signature and acceptance, transition, and according to mediate the Gulf.
The Security Council last month adopted a declaration supporting the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, but a resolution will have a greater political weight to convince President Saleh.
The tens of thousands in the cities of Sana'a and Shabwa and Socotra Yemen, Hodeidah on Wednesday in the procession for the Security Council to take a strong stand against the benefit system. Chanted the demonstrators in the march of sixty-Street in the capital Sanaa, chanting calls for the overthrow of protection and guarantees of non-prosecution after stepping down in favor.
The newspaper "revolution" of Yemen in an editorial Thursday accused the opposition forces - especially the Alliance of JMP - do everything that would block the agreement on the mechanism of time to implement the GCC initiative to resolve the current political crisis in the country.

Escalation charges
In the meantime, accused the Yemeni Ministry of Defense - in a statement today - JMPopposition set up what he described as a plan for military escalation and to carry out the killing and destruction in the capital Sana'a.

A statement from the Yemeni defense ministry quoted by the agency, the official Saba, themeeting parties approved - in an expanded meeting attended by Major General AliMohsen al-Ahmar - "to mobilize the largest number of young people misled them, on Saturday and Sunday, in three marches in the capital Sana'a, and it is equipped groups of snipers on demonstrations of the three routes to hunt and kill some of the demonstrators and the security men, to load the system responsible for that. "

It was what is known as the Organizing Committee for the youth called for a peaceful revolution, demonstrations and marches on Saturday and Sunday, in different places of the capital.

These developments come in a celebration of Yemen on Friday the 48 anniversary of the Revolution of October 14, 1963 in the southern part of Yemen, the former by the unit, arevolution that ended British colonial rule in the southern part of November 1967.


Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies