Brussels, 26/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 23 January, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini stated that implementation of the roadmap provided by the peace and national partnership agreement and the Gulf Cooperation Council should “remain a reference for the transition” in Yemen. The roadmap is the basis on which the Yemeni government of Khaled Bahah founded its programme for addressing the country's urgent budgetary, economic and institutional challenges.
The “resignation of the president of Yemen as well as the Yemeni prime minister and his cabinet, coupled with the violence that we have witnessed in Sana'a and in several provinces of Yemen, including in Mareb, is putting the remarkable promises of the Yemeni transition in jeopardy”, Mogherini stated. The president and prime minister resigned on 22 January. Mogherini said that the Ansar Allah Shi'ite militia and its allies should now “take clear public responsibility for their actions”. “This should start with the release of [the head of the president's cabinet] Dr. Ahmed bin Mubarak [kidnapped on 17 January] and a clear rejection of violence as a political tool”, she said.
Underlining that the Yemeni people deserve democratic and unitary institutions responding to their legitimate aspirations, Mogherini stated that the EU stood alongside the Yemeni people “at this critical juncture”. (CG)