GCC’s Latif to Return to Yemen to Salvage Accord to End Crisis
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Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Abdel Latif al-Zayyani will return to Yemen to try to salvage an agreement to end the political crisis there after President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign an accord to step down within a month in exchange for immunity, the council said.
Delegates from Yemen’s ruling and opposition parties had been scheduled to attend a signing ceremony in the Saudi capital Riyadh today. The ceremony was canceled, and Gulf officials instead met in the Saudi capital Riyadh to discuss the crisis.