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Clinton and Qirbi during a news conference in Washington last year (French - Archive)
Said Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-yesterday that the presidential election scheduled for February 21 next may be delayed because of security concerns, while renewed its U.S. counterpart, Hillary Clinton invited President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the country to meet its obligations and allow the organization of elections.
Qirbi said - a member of the General People's Congress, which belongs to the benefit in a television interview - "I hope that it (ie, elections) being on time, but unfortunately there are some risks related to security, and, if not the investigation of these matters would be difficult to hold elections on 21 February. "
But the opposition coalition, which shares power with Congress party General People's Government in its mission to lead the country until the elections, was quick to reject any delay in this context.
The spokesman for the JMP Ghalib Odaini Qirbi statement that shows the practice of President Saleh's regime, which aims - he says - "to create chaos."
The goal of this act, "enter the country in chaos and evasion of the Gulf initiative and presidential elections."
The al Qaeda threatIn reference to the seizure of a group of militants affiliated to al-Qaeda Radaa on the town last Sunday, President Saleh accused Odaini that stands behind this remarkable development "in order to show that the end of his rule meant chaos flourish elements of the organization."
The presidential election is a key part of the plan developed by the Gulf Cooperation Council in order to facilitate the abandonment of the benefit for power after the protests began about a year ago against his nearly 33 years.
But the young activists who led protests against the regime for refusing the transfer of power agreement, which gives him and his top aides immunity from prosecution, and they want his trial for the murder of protesters during the uprising.
For its part, Clinton again called on President Saleh to fulfill its promise to leave the country and allow the organization of elections.
She said in a statement to the economic capital of Ivory Coast Abidjan yesterday that "there is agreement on the next stages (from the political process) is not respected .. regret the fact that President Saleh has not yet pledge to leave the country and allow the organization of elections."
Clinton also expressed "great concern" that the United States is a result of the case of "instability" in Yemen, which is expanding in the influence of al-Qaeda.
She said "we remain focused on the threat posed by al Qaeda in Yemen, and continue to work with our partners there and in other places, to make sure that the rule will not work in the Arabian Peninsula undermine the stability of Yemen and the region as a whole."
Women's marchField demonstration was in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday in which thousands of Yemeni women to condemn the decision of the reconciliation government to grant immunity to the Yemeni President and his aides.
The posts in the march called for members of the Yemeni parliament to refrain from voting for the resolution of immunity for those who Svenhm as "killers of Yemenis." Vowing to continue their struggle as a peaceful and fulfilling lives for the "martyrs" to achieve the full objectives of the revolution.
Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies
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