Yemeni
Nobel Winner
Tells Press UN
PGA To Help
Freeze
Ali
Saleh Assets
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 18 --
Yemeni Nobel
Prize winner
Tawakkol
Karman came to
the UN again
on November
18, met with
the President
of the General
Assembly
Nassir
Abdulaziz
Al-Nasser and
then described
the meeting to
Inner City
Press. Video here.
Ms. Karman
said the
President of
the General
Assembly,
formerly the
Ambassador of
Qatar to the
UN, will "work
with us to put
pressure on
the Saleh
regime... He
will help us
find a way to
freeze
assets."
Earlier on
Friday, Inner
City Press had
asked Saudi
Arabia's
Permanent
Representative
Abdullah Y.
Al-Mouallimi
about the
Saudi role in
the Gulf
Cooperation
Council
initiative on
Yemen, that it
provides
immunity for
Ali Saleh and
his
associates.
Al-Mouallimi
said that "the
GCC agreement
was signed by
the relevant
parties in
Yemen" and now
ostensibly
belongs to
"the Yemeni
people." UN
Video here,
from Minute
7:50.
Inner City
Press asked
Tawakkul
Karman about
this claim,
that the GCC
immunity deal
"belong to the
Yemeni
people."
Karman replied
that "we are
not talking
about the GCC"
anymore, but
rather the
Security
Council's
resolution
which she said
"removed"
immunity, at
least for
"those who
committed
crimes." She
said she was
in New York
calling for
"implementation"
of the
resolution.
Tawakkul
Karman by UN
on Nov 18,
2011 (c) MRLee
On Friday
before
Karman's
meeting with
the President
of the General
Assembly,
Yemenis
demonstrated
across the
street from
the UN,
chanting
"Saleh must
go" and that
both the UN
and "Obama
must decide,
human rights
or genocide."
Ms. Karman
told Inner
City Press,
after the
clip, that she
met with US
Ambassador
Susan Rice.
Close
observers say
that the US
was behind the
GCC initiative
which offered
immunity to
Saleh. Watch
this site.
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