Prospects for Negotiations and a United Yemen
Ambassador Stephen A. Seche sat down with Mohammed Abulahoum from Yemen's Justice and Building Party to discuss the potential for a resolution to the conflict and a unified Yemeni state.
Justice and Building Party, Yemen
Mohammed Abulahoum is the chairman of the Justice and Building Party in Yemen. He is a leading political and social figure in Yemen, where he has been influential in the country’s politics for the past three decades. Abulahoum founded Yemen’s Republican Party in the early 1990s and later joined the General People’s Congress, first as a member of the party’s executive committee and later as head of foreign and economic relations. Abulahoum resigned from the GPC in 2011, supported the popular uprising against the government under former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and became a founder of the Justice and Building Party. When the civil war began, Abulahoum continued to play a key role; he worked on negotiations between the conflict’s parties and took part in the Geneva talks in June 2015.
Ambassador Stephen A. Seche sat down with Mohammed Abulahoum from Yemen's Justice and Building Party to discuss the potential for a resolution to the conflict and a unified Yemeni state.
Abulahoum discussed the November 5 power-sharing agreement between the U.N.-recognized Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the pro-secession Southern Transitional Council.
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