The international community is paralysed by the fear that Yemen will fall into chaos after four months of demonstrations. Yemen’s opposition shares that fear. The French foreign minister Alain Juppé said in March that it was not possible to avoid the question of President Ali Abdallah Saleh leaving office, but such statements do not change the situation any more than did the regional intervention of the Gulf Cooperation Council. What Yemen’s allies want is the system preserved, even if it costs the president his job.
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