.- President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Sunday rejected the signature of the transition agreement and threatened a civil war, while the GCC mediator had to be evacuated from the embassy, where negotiators were meeting at the siege of loyalists . One protester was killed and another wounded on the road to the airport shot by supporters of President Saleh, who were deployed en masse in the capital and blocked the main artery of the city.
Saleh warned the opposition against a "civil war", multiplying the conditions for signing the agreement for a way out of crisis produced by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides for his resignation in a month, after more than three decades power. On Sunday night, the GCC secretary general, Abdelatif Zayani, Sana'a left without obtaining the signature of the head of state.
The mediator was evacuated by helicopter, along with the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, Gerald Michael Feierstein, the United Arab Emirates embassy was surrounded by hundreds of supporters of the Yemeni regime. The two men at the presidential palace attended the signing, not binding on the President Saleh, in charge of the ruling party and its allies agreed to a transition.
The U.S. ambassador then returned by helicopter to the UAE embassy where they were still at the end of the day, their counterparts from Britain, the European Union and Gulf countries, according to a UAE Foreign Ministry source. The diplomats were meeting pending a decision on whether President Saleh signed the settlement transition.
The UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan, Sanaa had asked the security of the embassy and diplomats. The plan, developed with assistance from the United States and the European Union, provides for the formation of a government of reconciliation with the participation of the opposition, resigned a month later, Saleh, in exchange for immunity for himself and his relatives and the celebration presidential election in 60 days.
On Sunday night the streets of Sana'a were empty except for the loyalists, who were armed. "We fear the situation could degenerate into anarchy with armed tribesmen brought by the president," Sanaa said one resident, Nabil Sadek. In Riyadh, the foreign ministers of the GCC began a meeting on the situation in Yemen and mediation contemplated due to withdraw its opposition Saleh to sign the agreement, according to a regional group leader who requested anonymity.
Yemeni opposition, on Saturday evening transition agreement signed in the presence of Zayani and Western diplomats, Saleh warned it would be "ousted" by the pressure of the street if you do not sign the agreement. Opponents Saleh held in the plaza of the most important event change that has been the capital since January, when protests began to demand the immediate departure of the president, as a correspondent.
According to organizers, more than 1.5 million people participated in this demonstration. The protesters kept her sitting at night, protected by the men of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who defected in March and joined the demonstrators. Yemen lives since late January, a popular protest movement against the regime unprecedented demands the departure of Saleh, in power for 33 years, which they accuse of nepotism and corruption.
The suppression of the revolt killed 181 people, according to recount. 
Saleh warned the opposition against a "civil war", multiplying the conditions for signing the agreement for a way out of crisis produced by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides for his resignation in a month, after more than three decades power. On Sunday night, the GCC secretary general, Abdelatif Zayani, Sana'a left without obtaining the signature of the head of state.
The mediator was evacuated by helicopter, along with the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, Gerald Michael Feierstein, the United Arab Emirates embassy was surrounded by hundreds of supporters of the Yemeni regime. The two men at the presidential palace attended the signing, not binding on the President Saleh, in charge of the ruling party and its allies agreed to a transition.
The U.S. ambassador then returned by helicopter to the UAE embassy where they were still at the end of the day, their counterparts from Britain, the European Union and Gulf countries, according to a UAE Foreign Ministry source. The diplomats were meeting pending a decision on whether President Saleh signed the settlement transition.
The UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan, Sanaa had asked the security of the embassy and diplomats. The plan, developed with assistance from the United States and the European Union, provides for the formation of a government of reconciliation with the participation of the opposition, resigned a month later, Saleh, in exchange for immunity for himself and his relatives and the celebration presidential election in 60 days.
On Sunday night the streets of Sana'a were empty except for the loyalists, who were armed. "We fear the situation could degenerate into anarchy with armed tribesmen brought by the president," Sanaa said one resident, Nabil Sadek. In Riyadh, the foreign ministers of the GCC began a meeting on the situation in Yemen and mediation contemplated due to withdraw its opposition Saleh to sign the agreement, according to a regional group leader who requested anonymity.
Yemeni opposition, on Saturday evening transition agreement signed in the presence of Zayani and Western diplomats, Saleh warned it would be "ousted" by the pressure of the street if you do not sign the agreement. Opponents Saleh held in the plaza of the most important event change that has been the capital since January, when protests began to demand the immediate departure of the president, as a correspondent.
According to organizers, more than 1.5 million people participated in this demonstration. The protesters kept her sitting at night, protected by the men of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who defected in March and joined the demonstrators. Yemen lives since late January, a popular protest movement against the regime unprecedented demands the departure of Saleh, in power for 33 years, which they accuse of nepotism and corruption.
The suppression of the revolt killed 181 people, according to recount.
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