Yemen youth urge safe power transfer
A Yemeni committee of youth has called for prompt action to ensure a power transition after the country’s ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh fled to Saudi Arabia.
The committee issued a statement on Monday urging "all national and political forces to begin with forming an interim presidential council,” AFP reported.
The Yemeni group also called for the establishment of “a national transitional council," as well as a "government of technocrats" to lead the transition.
"The revolution has achieved its first objective -- the ouster of Saleh," the group stated, adding that the anti-government protesters would “not stop their sit-in until the achievement of all goals."
Saleh arrived in Saudi Arabia late Saturday along with several other top Yemeni officials allegedly for treatment of wounds they suffered in a rocket attack on the presidential palace in Sana’a on June 3.
The Yemeni youth celebrated what they referred to as the fall of the regime after Saleh’s departure, while the opposition said it would do everything within its power to prevent the return of the despotic ruler from Saudi Arabia.
"We will work with all our strength to prevent his return," said Mohammed Qahtan, spokesman for the Common Forum parliamentary opposition collation.
Reports say Yemeni Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has taken over as acting president and supreme commander of the armed forces.
Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out for near daily demonstrations in Yemen’s major cities since late January, calling for an end to corruption and unemployment and demanding the ouster of Saleh, who has been in office since 1978 and mainly backed by the US and Saudi Arabian governments.
Source: presstv.ir
