SANA'A — Participants in Yemen's months-long National Dialogue Conference (NDC) have not yet reached agreement on a solution to decades-old conflict between the country's north and south, reports said. Over the past three months, the conference sessions have been marked by a series of unprecedented events such as sit-ins by representatives from the south and their repeated demands for independence. The primary aim of the NDC is to come up with solutions for a wide range of issues which have placed Yemen in a state of political instability. Many southerners taking part in the NDC believe that the calls for separation in the south are due to the lack of hope in the government to address the concerns of the south. “Calls for separation have increased among some of the members of the dialogue due to the situation in the south, which is taking a turn for the worse and is deteriorating by the day,” Afra'a Khaled Al-Hariri, a member of the NDC, was quoted as saying. “We call on the president and the government to show some signs of good intentions to solve some of the issues in the south, and mainly in the province of Aden,” she added. — Agencies
