93170064 Yemeni President agreed to the transfer of power
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said the adoption of the plan proposed by the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), which provides for his departure from power. It is reported by Agence France-Presse. In an interview with state television, Saleh said that authorized the Vice-President Abduraba Mansour Hadi, to sign the plan, and GCC to hold talks with the opposition. Yemeni President expressed hope that in the near future presidential, parliamentary and local elections. However, as the Associated Press, he did not specify exactly when officially step down from his post. GCC plan was first proposed in April 2011. It provides care Saleh as president and holding early elections in exchange for guarantees of immunity Saleh and his family, as well as the inclusion of the son of the dictator of the future government. Earlier Saleh stated on several occasions their willingness to accept the proposed plan, but then every once renounced his words. Speech by Saleh on national television was the first since his return to Yemen from Saudi Arabia on September 23. He has more than three months, the president was treated in Riyadh after the wound received in the attack on his palace. Mass demonstrations demanding the resignation of the opposition continues Saleh in Yemen in February 2011. During the uprising on the side of the protesters crossed several influential tribal alliances with the presence of armed men in what is actually put the country on the brink of civil war. Victims of conflict for all time are about one and a half thousand people.