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Written By: Shuaib M. al-Mosawa
Article Date: Jul 26, 2010 - 4:26:16 PM
Hassan Zeid, the General Secretary of al-Hag party, one of the Yemeni opposition Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), warned of a new war in the province of Sa’ada as a result of what he described as interference on the part of Saudi Arabia.
Zeid said in a statement to al-Alam News on Monday that Saudi Arabia might rouse a new war in Sa’ada to prevent the turmoil in north Yemen spreading past the borders.
“Saudi Arabia does not accept the role Qatar in resolving the conflict in Yemen, as it didn’t before when it caused the Qatari mediation to fail.”
Zeid said that the Qatar’s presence in Yemen might provoke Saudi Arabia and that it will- through its followers- accelerate the severity of the situation. “Unless there is coordination between Doha and Riyadh, fighting in Sa’ada will regenerate,” Zeid said.
Zeid revealed that many social, political, and tribal Yemeni leaders are linked to the Saudi government and receive a budget or financial assistance from Saudi Arabia, noting : “ The relationship between Yemeni leaders and the Saudi authorities date back to the pre-civil war following the 1962 coup .
Some Yemeni media, according to Zeid, believe that doing Saudi Arabia a favor is helping to escalate the battles.
Zeid said that there are parties within Yemeni society who accuse Iran of aiding the Houthi in Yemen, and not the Yemen political system, pointing out that these parties have a relation in decision-making and cutting Yemeni relations off with regional States and influential players like Iran, Qatar and Libya.
Yemeni Newspaper claimed it quoted Mohammed al-Radai, Assistant Secretary-General of the The Nasserite Peoples Unionist Party, one of the opposition JMPs, as saying that Zeid statements are considered an abuse of the 26th revolution and that the Supreme Council of the JMP will investigate such statements.
Zeid, however, said the paper is a suspicious and it serves the Zionist Crusaders in dismantling Yemen, al-Radai who is, according to Zeid, much wiser to release such a newspaper and that al-Radai can not afford or accept to be a cat’s paw.
“Our relations in the Joint Meeting are built upon respect and no one is acting as a guardian on one another,” Zeid said. “ We are committed by our relationship: respecting the constitutional and legal legitimacy and respecting one another’s views, and lastly, I would like to thank the Yemen Observer for its honest investigation and commitment to professionalism,” Zeid commented.