Power Transition matter in Yemen is heading to the Security Council

Western countries, state member at the Security Council and GCC countries, threatened the Yemeni government to discus the Yemeni matter in the Security Council within three days if Saleh doesn’t changed his mind.

Western countries are hoping to step up pressure on Yemen's president to stand down with a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution, diplomats said, as frustration grows over fruitless power transition talks.

The vision is that the Security Council would adapt the GCC initiative and its implementation in addition to imposing sanctions against the government of Saleh.

Sources told “Yemen fox” that president ali Abdullah Saleh rejected negotiations mediated by UN envoy Mr. Jamal Ben Omar which state transferring power and prepare for early election .

Diplomats said that Saleh rejection would push the matter of transferring power in Yemen to the security council,

Yemen has been paralysed by more than eight months of protests demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule, sparking bloody clashes across the country between loyalist troops and those who have defected to the opposition.

Fierce fighting in Sanaa last month nearly dragged the Arabian Peninsula country into civil war, while al Qaeda militants have seized parts of a southern province that lies east of a major international shipping lane.

"The international community has decided we need to up the pressure now," one senior western diplomat in Sanaa said. "No decision has been taken yet over what type of resolution we might try ... But we do need to move beyond statements now."

Several Western diplomats in New York told Reuters that the Americans, British and French have been outlining a possible draft resolution that would urge Yemen to stick with a Gulf-brokered transition process.

Saleh has thrice backed out of signing the transition deal, raising fears of rising turmoil which could embolden militants and increase instability on the doorstep of top oil exporter Saudi Arabia.

"The idea is to keep Yemen under pressure. This would put both sides of the conflict under the microscope," another diplomat in Sanaa said.

The United States, Britain and France had not yet shared their outline proposed resolution with Russia and China, the other two permanent members of the Security Council, diplomats in New York said.

Nor are there any clear signs that Moscow and Beijing would be willing to support such a resolution in the council.

"We dont want to take on Yemen until the Council has approved something on Syria," a diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

The European members of the Security Council have been working in recent days to persuade Russia to accept a watered-down resolution on Syria that would threaten "targeted measures" against Damascus if it fails to end its crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators without explicitly threatening U.N. sanctions, Council diplomats said.

European envoys say that they hope the Council will vote on the Syria resolution Tuesday.

The Security Council issued a statement on Yemen in late June that voiced "grave concern" about the situation there and welcomed "the ongoing mediation efforts of the Gulf Cooperation Council to help the parties find agreement on a way forward."

That statement came after months of disagreement on Yemen due to Russian and Chinese objections about what they saw as interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state, Western diplomats said.

Source: Yemen Fox

Yemen Fox is the mouthpiece of General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar commander of the defected army