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26 March 2012
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi arrived in the Saudi capital of
Riyadh on Monday, for the first trip abroad since he was elected last month in
line with a Gulf-brokered deal aimed at ending Yemen's one-year political
crisis, officials said, Xinhua reported.
Hadi is scheduled to meet Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Monday
evening to discuss the latest developments in Yemen and the implementation of
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) deal that transfer power from former Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh after mass anti-government protests, Yemeni
government officials told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The two leaders will also talk about "Friends of Yemen"
donors' meeting, an international conference scheduled to be held next month in
Riyadh for assisting Yemen's economic sector, according to the officials.
Hadi was elected as a consensus president on Feb. 25 in elections agreed
by Saleh's party General People's Congress (GPC) and the opposition coalition
in accordance with the UN-backed GCC deal.
Under the deal signed in November 2011, 66-year-old Hadi, who has served
17 years under the GPC, is supposed to carry out reforms during his two-year
interim period.
Key terms in the deal's second phase include reforming the Yemeni army,
disarming warring forces, conducting a national dialogue to settle the disputes
among all rival parties, stabilizing the economic and security situation,
rewriting the Yemeni constitution and preparing for the parliamentary and
presidential elections.
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