Alsahwah.net- The assets of the former president
Ali Abdullah Saleh and his families are being followed up in European banks and
institution with the aim of freezing them in case the UN Security Council
issued a resolution on that, a Western diplomat told the Arabic-speaking Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper stated.
The diplomat said that Saleh still
insists to violate the GCC power transfer deal and the UN Security Council
Resolution 2014, affirming that they still cling to power, stressing that they
pose a stumbling block to president Abdu
Rabo Mansour Hadi.
He made it clear that the global
world reconsiders choices of freezing Saleh's assets, pointing out that a
number of European states have already started to count Saleh's assets in its
banks and institutions.
The US President, Barack Obama,
yesterday ordered the treasury department to freeze the US-based assets of
anyone who "obstructs" the implementation of the political transition
in Yemen.
The order "will allow the United
States to take action against those who seek to undermine Yemen's transition
and the Yemeni peoples' clear desire for change.
