In order for Yemenis to regain their state and country taken over by militias, four basic parameters must be adhered to, said the peace- and women’s rights activist Tawakkol Karman. 

The Gulf initiative resulted in by the popular revolution in 2001, the federal system as stipulated in the national dialogue outcomes, the national legitimacy represented by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the international legitimacy reinforced by the UN resolution 2216 are the four parameters for any political settlement in Yemen, Karman said. 

She noted that these determinants are the lifeline for the country and nation, and deprive the coup’s sectarian alliance represented by Houthis and ousted president Saleh of all weapons and tricks. 

In another context, Mrs. Karman urged activists, who have recently gotten into a bitter argument over controversial historical figures and topics, to turn their attention to today’s issues that have to do much more with “your life, country and future.”    

UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, is scheduled to resume his consultations with the parties to the Yemeni crisis in days after a scheduled meeting of a pacification and coordination committee was stalled in the Jordanian capital of Amman.