Yemeni Foreign Ministry: Any discussions regarding Hadi’s authorities are rejected

Political sources said the legitimate government did not receive any draft proposals from U.N. Special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed concerning a solution to the Yemeni crisis

The sources said , according to Asharq Al-Awsat , the government has presented some remarks to the U.N. envoy and is “awaiting from him any response based on the terms of reference stated in U.N. Security Council Resolution , the Gulf Cooperation Council’s initiative and its executive mechanism and the outputs of the comprehensive national dialogue

For his part, Mane Al Matari, media adviser to Yemen’s foreign minister, said that any U.N. paper that discusses the authorities of the president, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, would be rejected for falling outside the three references. “We do not expect the new U.N. paper, which the envoy is about to present, to include such a proposal

The UN initiative announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry marginalize President Hadi and transfer his powers to new deputy agreed upon him between the legitimate government and the coupists, which rejected strongly by the legitimacy