Yemeni debate on references and a “presidential council”

Identical Yemeni sources revealed a debate within the political axis during the Riyadh consultations under the auspices of the Gulf, as some participants see the necessity of creating a presidential council, while others do not. The same sources also revealed another debate about the three references (UN Resolution 2216, the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism, and the outcomes of the national dialogue), and the extent to which they can be changed or modified, at a time when some of them refused to touch them as one of the pillars of the solution.

During the final days of the scheduled consultations, attendees will seek consensus on this debate, while the tone of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the sponsor and advocate of the consultations, remains optimistic.

Sarhan bin Cruz al-Munakher, the ambassador of the Gulf Cooperation Council to Yemen, said that the participants “are completing solutions and visions today, to announce them on the basis of full consensus, and we are optimistic about this meeting, in light of the presence of large numbers that exceeded our expectations, and we felt in them concern for their country, and they will find in Their Gulf brothers are the best supporter and helper for them.”

While the UN envoy, Hans Grundberg, warned of the collapse of the two-month truce, the British ambassador to Yemen, Richard Oppenheim, expected the start of serious Yemeni negotiations to achieve peace in the country under the auspices of the United Nations next summer, indicating in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat that the UN envoy will set a written framework for these negotiations with the support of The international community. He said that the announced truce is still “fragile”, calling on the parties to take advanced steps to stabilize it.

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