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Arabia
Saleh will not attend National Dialogue says Information Minister
2013-01-23
[Yemen Post] On the sideline of the 44th session of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
Council held in Cairo - Egypt - Yemen Information Minister Ali Ahmed Amrani refuted claims deposed 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...
would lead his political faction - the General People's Congress - at the National Dialogue conference, putting the claims down to "media hype."

Earlier this month a defiant Saleh announced to the press he would participate in the National Dialogue in his quality of President of the GPC, stirring anger among political activists who perceived the move as yet another attempt to derail Yemen's move toward reconciliation.

The Minister who remained optimistic as to Yemen's ability to move forward a peaceful resolution of its current political crisis within the parameters of the rule of law stressed the transitional government's first priority is to ensure national unity and stability - directly referring to the southern secessionist movement and the Houthis - Shia rebel group operating in the northern provinces of Yemen
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