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| JMP official: No national dialogue before Yemeni army shakeup |
| 2012-03-12 |
| [Yemen Post] The main Yemeni Opposition bloc, the Joint Meeting Parties' (JMP) official front man, Abdu Galab al-Adini, affirmed that army and security institutions shakeup is something of paramount importance at present for the politicianship to be able to reestablish its authority, and restore security and stability nationwide. In an interview with Al-Shtraki newspaper, al-Adini said: "We can not engage in an inclusive national dialogue until the way is paved for it. The main thing that would lay the ground for the national dialogue is restructuring the army." He, however, took the pains to assure that JMP is committed to the GCC-brokered power transfer deal and its executive mechanism, which was signed late in November in the Suadi capital of Riyadh and in which restructuring the army and security institutions was one of the chief provisions. Al-Adini urged the newly-elected Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Haid to take bold decisions that ensure establishing e a strong national army whose loyalty is only to the nation; not to certain persons or families. With regards to US pressures to keep former Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's relatives in their key military posts on grounds related to fighting al-Qaeda in the country, he said that JMP would not be pressed by any country as it acquires its independent stances from its national responsibility and mainstream's will. "Combating terrorism is a corporate responsibility of the politicianship and the armed forces and that it's not stipulated to a certain person or a military commander," stressed al-Adini. He concluded his interview by calling on the former President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... and his top aides, who were granted immunity from prosecution, to avail form the immunity they have been awarded, quit politics realm, and leave Yemenis be the master of their own fates. |
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