More on the Opposition Coalition
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Published September 26, 2005
Basam Alouni
Abd Allah Ahmed al-Numan, Yemeni opposition activist, has announced that he is working with Yemeni political opposition leaders to form a conference that will call for an overhaul of the governemnt in Sana’a-Yemen, according to United Press International.
” I am visiting London to meet with Yemeni opposition groups, and
the exiled Yemeni community in Britania. There is a an interest
forming to meet with whomever is concerned about the Yemeni
affair ,whether they be in the British governemnt, or the
parliament. There are no specifics on this matter.” al-Numan said. al-Numan reserved disclosure of whom he maybe meeting with in the UK.
He adds: “Two months ago I nominated myself to run for next Yemeni
president election. Since then I have made constant contacts and
been communicating with Yemeni opposition groups in and outside
Yemen, the USA, Europe, Saudia, and Gulf States, and had found lots
of support.”
al-Numan denies if he recieves support from Arab, regional or
foreign states. He says ” My base is Yemen, and I will not resort to
no one but Yemen and the Yemeni People only.”
al-Numan has been nominating himself to run in the next Yemeni
presidential election since July 2005, soon as President Saleh
announced his intended abandonment of his office in 2006.
al-Numan also says:”We are working to announce a new opposition
assembly that combines all Yemeni forces into a coalition. One that
calls for change in Yemen. There has been on going presentations to
form a coalition that integrates all Yemeni oppossition factors into
one whole regardless of where they are inside or outside Yemen.
There is the 1970 constitution as an authoritative reference that
possibly could be called the ancestors constitution. There must be a
separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers in Yemn.
Because all of these branches of powers are in the custody of the
president.”
He continues ” We are hoping that we all can meet as individuals and
push for change in Yemen… He describes the situation in Yemen
as ‘bad, and terrible’…and come out with a policy that all can
agree upon.”
But al-Numan is disclosing that the new assembly name is the “Yemeni
Unit of Reform, for Progress and Change. The YURPC will elect an
institution committee and charge it with a responsiblity to making
appropriate contacts, and to convene with all forces of change and
oppossition units in sister states and friendly nations to follow up
with what happens inside and outside Yemen, to found and form a
national provisional government that monitors the elections,which
has to be run under EU states and contributing nations, the forming
of a national defense council under the provisional government that
shall overlook all the military, security, and other militant
organizations, and to make no amendemnts to the constitution during
its temporary rule.”
And as of what if this phenomena means holding a conference that
includes all the Yemeni oppositions known? al-Numan answers that
this is “the current motion at present, and all are focusing on
founding a real opposition, because it is unfortunate that there
always remains few contestants that still believe that opposing
coflicts are professions and jobs for hire, and that they should
money should be made in the process, whereas an opposition is a
right and duty of change for a better life in Yemen, which has and
still suffering under the present regime for the last 27 years.”
al-Numan does not distance the possiblity of having a conference in
the last week of November.
He says, “the choices before the government in Yemen, which has shot
itself in the foot out of a rational or forthsight, it realizes are
limited,” but still he calls for ” prosecuting the government for
breach, and infringements against the Yemeni People, in grievances
of abasement, dictatorship and exlusionary practices.”
He describes the situation in Yemen as “humiliating”,
reflecting “this is not my depiction as an individual or as a Yemeni
citizen but the reports of international organizations. and there is
a saying that goes: when people become hungry, it resort itself to
dishonor.Unfortunately, We have arrived at this situation, and there
are lots of families living in ways that are remorseful, shameful,
and it honors no Yemeni, Arab, or Moslem.
He assures that he is still “nominating himself in the president
election coming next Septemeber.” He doubts president [Saleh]
will abandon his office in Septemeber [2006]. The government has
never been honest and tries to scare itself. The future is in the
peoples hand and we will work for change, and I believe that the
government has become totally bankrupt.”
He adds, ” I am nominating myself as an independent and asking all
opposition forces to support me. In this coming election, I am
asserting myself on the history of my family, and my father’s Ahmed
al-Numan’s founding of the first opposition movement against the
imamate rule in the 1940s in the British Colony Aden, and who later
became prime minister in 1962, and member in the presidential
council.”
Abd Allah Al-Numan have been dispatched as the Yemeni Ambassador to
South Africa, and also held the vice-chairman of the Yemen
Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, long before he
decided to separate from his posts because of the government
practices of persecution and excommunication in Sana’a.” Abd Allah
Al-Numan lives in Geneva since his mission to South Africa expired
in 2001.
