Yemen forms committee to follow up gulf initiative’s progress

The government approbated on Tuesday the outcomes of the committee tasked with drafting a mechanism to carry out the commitments set down in the Security Council’s resolutions on Yemen. During its weekly meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa, the government approved forming a ministerial committee chaired by Foreign Minister to follow up the progress level of the implementation of the Gulf initiative. It instructed the committee to submit a report on the implementation progress and the reasons deterring carrying out rest of the initiative’s terms. The committee is also charged with following up implementing the government’s relevant decisions issued previously, using violence for political goals, reconstructing army and security forces, conducting an independent and full-scale investigation into human rights violations and preventing the recruitment of children. The government also formed a ministerial committee chaired by Minister of Legal Affaires to prepare the government’s proposals on the constitution, the electoral law and the electoral register, which will be of the main topics on the table of the national dialogue conference. It ordered the ministerial committee to insure the release of the illegally detained people and to report any obstacles deterring its works in this regard.