[Yemen Post] Special Representative of UN Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, along with accompanying delegation, arrived in Sana'a on Monday. Zerrougui told the state news agency, Saba, that her visit aims at following up issues of children and armed disputes, providing assistance to enhance democracy and rule of law.
Saba said that Zerrougui will hold meeting with high-ranking Yemeni officials to follow up the outcomes of the visit made by and UN Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
to Sana'a days ago.
A number of international and regional envoys visited Yemen this month due to instability and fears that the political settlement will be broken down.
Yemen suffers from many challenges and difficulties including the division of the army , al-Qaeda, worsening security situations and deteriorating economy.
Ki-moon, GCC Secretary General Abdul-Latif Al-Zayani and UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar met with President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi
...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
and other Yemeni officials and discussed Yemen's political settlement.
The envoys affirmed that Yemen will be given all sorts of support for the success of the dialogue conference, reiterating that they would closely follow up the political process in Yemen.
They also asserted that Yemen's stability, security and unity will secure the region as a whole, hinting that the Gulf Cooperation Council pledged to give Yemen $6 billion to its development projects.They praised progress made in initiating the national Dialogue Conference, undermining the importance of respecting the timelines as set out by the GCC initiative