On
Yemen, ICP
Asks UK and
France If Hadi
Should Cede
Power, Video
Here
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 31 --
The Saudi led
coalition
bombed the
funeral of the
father of
Yemen interior
minister Jalal
al-Roweishan
in Sana'a on
October 8, the
same day the
UN Security
Council met
about
airstrikes in
Syria.
Inner
City Press
asked Saudi
Arabia's
ambassador to
the UN
Abdallah Yahya
A.
Al-Mouallimi
to confirm it
was an Saudi
strike and
explain it. He
said, "I am
not aware of
it." Vine
video here.
After
Saudi Arabia
was re-elected
to the UN
Human Rights
Council on
October 28,
with the votes
of 152 of the
193 member
states, the
Saudi-led
Coalition's
bombing of
Yemen picked
up pace,
including
killing
detainees in
Al Hudaydah.
On
October 31
outside the UN
Security
Council, Inner
City Press
asked UK
ambassador
Matthew
Rycroft if
Hadi should
cede power. Beyond the Vine video here;
UK transcript
here:
Inner
City Press:
Should
President Hadi
cede power to
a new vice
president.
That’s what
people are
saying is in
the Road Map.
Is it time for
him to put the
larger picture
ahead of
himself?
Rycroft: We
support the
Special
Envoy’s Road
Map, and
you’re right
that part of
the Road Map
is on the
political
process and a
longer term
political
settlement for
Yemen, and the
other part of
it is the
security. And
taken
together, they
provide a
balanced
package that
will allow all
of the
relevant
parties to
move forward,
including in
the longer
term a new
governing
structure and
new governing
people to take
Yemen forward.
Inner City
Press put the
same question
to French
Ambassador
Francois
Delattre, who
said it would
require too
long an
answer. Video
here: including
Inner City
Press' "you
know where to
find us."
Watch this
site.
InnerCityPro.com
obtained and
published the
National
Delegation's
response to
Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed's
proposed
roadmap, here.
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