Gunmen supporters of the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, have remained close for several hours on Sunday the UAE Embassy in Sana'a, where ambassadors were meeting U.S., Europe and five members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to try, after two failed attempts, the Yemeni president to sign the agreement that his own party and the opposition agreed to the April 24 to facilitate the transition in the country.
After several hours in detention, Saleh has refused to sign the new pact, which provides for his resignation in 30 days and the holding of elections in three months, and diplomats have been evacuated by helicopter. Saleh had amagado twice and sign the agreement, designed by the GCC and supported by the U.S.
and the EU to end the massive demonstrations demanding his resignation. And the threatening presence of his followers around the UAE Embassy for the international envoys meeting seemed to suggest that this occasion was not going to do it. There is evidence that violent incidents have occurred around the embassy.
Yesterday, after the opposition signed the agreement, Saleh returned to wield the argument that has been used so far to evade signature: the plan is a "coup operation" and only accepted it under pressure from the U.S. and the EU. "That plan, with which we deal positively in the interest of the country, is really a coup operation, but try to accept this initiative under pressure and foreign agenda that started from Tunisia and then in Egypt, Bahrain and Oman," said Yesterday the president in a speech to mark the twenty-first anniversary of the unification of the country.
In diplomatic circles are convinced that if Saleh, who has 32 years in front of Yemen does not accept the transfer of power, the country is headed toward civil war. Three months ago a popular movement answering his legitimacy in the street and most of the ruling elite has come to the conclusion that the only peaceful solution to the crisis is that the president leaves office. 
After several hours in detention, Saleh has refused to sign the new pact, which provides for his resignation in 30 days and the holding of elections in three months, and diplomats have been evacuated by helicopter. Saleh had amagado twice and sign the agreement, designed by the GCC and supported by the U.S.
and the EU to end the massive demonstrations demanding his resignation. And the threatening presence of his followers around the UAE Embassy for the international envoys meeting seemed to suggest that this occasion was not going to do it. There is evidence that violent incidents have occurred around the embassy.
Yesterday, after the opposition signed the agreement, Saleh returned to wield the argument that has been used so far to evade signature: the plan is a "coup operation" and only accepted it under pressure from the U.S. and the EU. "That plan, with which we deal positively in the interest of the country, is really a coup operation, but try to accept this initiative under pressure and foreign agenda that started from Tunisia and then in Egypt, Bahrain and Oman," said Yesterday the president in a speech to mark the twenty-first anniversary of the unification of the country.
In diplomatic circles are convinced that if Saleh, who has 32 years in front of Yemen does not accept the transfer of power, the country is headed toward civil war. Three months ago a popular movement answering his legitimacy in the street and most of the ruling elite has come to the conclusion that the only peaceful solution to the crisis is that the president leaves office.
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