Ali Nasser Calls for Gulf States Political Intervention in Yemen
Externally supervised mediation may work, but not western. I wrote something similar a few months ago: Dialog at this point requires regional or international oversight. Southerners have been calling for U.N.-supervised negotiations for years. A caretaker government under the guidance of the Gulf Cooperative Council is another possibility. But almost any strategy is better than pinning the future of 22 million Yemenis on dreams of rehabilitating President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
There’s a huge credibility gap on regime promises and it hasn’t engaged in any authentic confidence building measures (in the South or Sa’ada). The only problem with the mediated dialog strategy is that the Gulf states are uniformly authoritarian themselves. And ANM is correct, the Yemeni government has been ignoring all warnings and studies about how to extract Yemen from the downward spiral toward disaster. But then, so has the rest of the world. And time keeps ticking. Whether or not federalism is the best solution, the door is slowly closing on that option. The following is from al Sahwa:
Sahwa Net- former Yemeni president Ali Nasser Mohmmamad has called the Gulf States to intervene to solve the issue of southern Yemen through serious and comprehensive dialogue.
In a symposium arranged by the Paris-based Arab-European Study Centre, Mohammad accused the Yemeni regime of ignoring crises, local and international institutions that express their fears about Yemen’s future.
Mohammad stressed that Yemen’s crises require efforts of neighbor states, especially the Gulf States, pointing out that the issue of southern Yemen is the core of crises.
The Yemeni foreign minister Dr. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi charged foreign media mass of inciting the idea of Yemen divide, pointing out that the will of Yemen’s people could only decide the Yemen’s fate. “No plots can divide Yemen” added he.
For his part, the former Yemeni premier Haidar al-Atas warned of a disaster if the government continued attacking peaceful demonstrations.
