Europe is considering freezing of funds of the Yemeni president

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Said French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe Monday that Europe will be discussed in thenext week to freeze the assets of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his staff, while the EU is seeking to push him to step down, in accordance with the provisions of the GCCinitiative.

The Juppe - after his meeting with Yemeni activist assigned Kerman winning the Nobel Prize for Peace in Paris - that he will discuss the assets freeze as soon as possible, and explained that the issue on the agenda of the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brusselsnext week.

The Juppe that he is ready to discuss with his European colleagues on how to ensure the implementation of the resolution, but stressed that their work would be more effective if theYemeni opposition "united are the best," as he put it.

He added that the UN resolution on Yemen would pave the way for an investigation to see if there were crimes committed could be forwarded to the international court.

Condemned the UN Security Council on October 21 / October Yemeni government repression of the protesters, and urged the signing of the agreement - which states the president step down in exchange for immunity - did not provide the details on how to achieve accountability if the agreement was signed in favor of granting immunity.







Do more
For its part, said assigned Kerman - won jointly with Aberatin the Nobel Peace Prize in October / November last - that the international community should do more in favor of andagainst the government which "continues to shed blood" in her day.

"We want more of the acts, we want you to froze the assets of Saleh and his men, and thatis making a move in the International Criminal Court because it is a war criminal."

In response, the Yemen News Agency said Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, Vice Presidentreturned to Sana'a after a visit to Washington.

The UN envoy Jamal Bin Omar said - earlier - that he would visit Yemen after the tenth ofthis month to discuss a proposal by President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the signing of the initiative Gulf, but he stipulated that the presence of Yemeni Vice President and the leadership of the National Council of the Revolution.

Migration
On the other hand, caused the confrontations between the Yemeni army and militants of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the displacement of 25 thousand families from Abyan province since May / May.

And the transfer of site news News near the Yemeni government for Gresp Vningrson - thehead of a research team prepared a report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen during the political crisis - as saying that more than 25 thousand Yemeni families were forced to leave their homes in the province of Abyan, after the establishment of groups of Al Qaedaoccupied Zanzibar, the capital city of the province.

She added that most families now living in relief camps, and quoted local residents said seven civilians were massacred in Zanzibar elements armed with knives.

The government report said on Saturday that the number of displaced people in the showreached the end of October / November last more than 138 thousand people, spread overmore than 25 thousand families, representing 35% of the total population.

The number of people displaced by the armed conflict in Yemen since the beginning of the year until the end of October / November last to half a million, but human rights organizations considered that the partial figures do not include all displaced persons inareas of armed conflict.
 

Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies