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April 20 (Bloomberg)--talks to end a political crisis in the Yemen are centered around a plan which would have the President Ali Abdullah Saleh not back within 30 days of it being announced and guarantee immunity for himhis family and long time collaborators, a Yemeni official said.Pursuant to the plan 30 + 60 supposedly Saleh transfer his powers to a Deputy Minister and elections be held 60 days after that, according to Ahmed al-Sufi, Secretary General of the Yemeni Institute for the development of democracy and an advisor for business media in the Presidential Palace.The threat is that more violence in the country, or a military fatal gap like in Libya can lead to an escalation of the impasse. At the same time, rising social unrest can strengthen al-Qaeda seeks to use the Yemen, the poor Arab nation, as a base to destabilize the neighbor Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter of crude oil.A weak central Government risk Yemen mirroring the situation in Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden, there where it has not been an administration works since 1991. Somalia became a breeding ground for pirates who attack shipping lanes.No there was no public comment on the plan leaders Saleh or opposition. Al-Sufi said officials of the Council of the Gulf Cooperation, which includes the United Arab Emirates United, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, will travel to the Yemen the week next to facilitate the negotiations.FatherAl-Sufi democratic said a partisan option of the President have put forward is for Saleh to oversee the process of holding elections. "It would be the father of this democratic process", he said in a telephone interview in Sana'a, the capital.Protests to the Yemen call for an end to the rule of the Saleh are in their third month.The State of emergency Yemen, the first since a civil war of 1994, between the North and the South, public gatherings are banned, the media are subject to restrictions and the constitution suspended.The United States claimed Saleh, an ally key in the fight against al-Qaida, with $ 300 million per year in economic and military aid.A total of 109 demonstrators have been killed since February 11, according to Majed al-Madhaji, Arab sisters Forum spokesperson for the human rights of the Sana ' A.Des dozens of legislators abandoned Saleh general decision of the Congress of the people to protest against violencejoin a list of defectors, which includes Cabinet Ministers, diplomats, tribal leaders and senior officers as Ali Muhsin al - Ahmar, Commander of the Muslim conflict in the armoured-first Division.Yemen with Houthis Shia in the North of the nation has attracted in the past in Saudi Arabiaa monarchy led by Sunni Muslims that last month sent troops to help quell an uprising led by Shia in another neighbour, Bahrain.-With Declaration by Mohammed Hatem to Sana ' a. editors: Andrew j. Barden, Heather Langan
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