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Arabia
Saleh calls for talks to end strife
2015-04-27
Doha -- Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Friday on all Yemenis to return to political dialogue to find a way to end the country’s spiraling conflict.
He at least thinks he's winning, and now's a good time to freeze the game table...
Saleh’s loyalists have been fighting alongside Iranian-allied Houthi rebels who toppled the central government, and US Secretary of State John Kerry put the onus for peacemaking on the Houthis and their supporters to cease fire.

Saleh also called for talks between Yemenis and Saudi Arabia, which has led a nearly month-long bombing campaign against the Houthi militia, to be held under United Nations auspices in Geneva.
I'm a little surprised he didn't ask Carla del Ponte and Muhammed El-Baradei to co-chair the talks. That alone would freeze the situation until 2030 or so...
“I call on all conflicting parties in all provinces to stop fighting and return to dialogue in all provinces,” Saleh, who was forced from power by months of mass protests in 2011, said in an emailed statement.

He also urged the Houthis to accept an April 13 UN Security Council resolution calling on them to drop their weapons and quit cities they have seized, after Saudi-led forces stop their intervention in Yemen.

Saleh said he was ready to reconcile with all parties that have opposed him since 2011 “for the interest of the nation”.
And he's in the bestest interest of the nation, you know. You could ask him...
He called on all militants to withdraw from the southern port of Aden and hand over power to the army and local authorities.
Posted by:Steve White

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