Yemen's Minister of Defense Major General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed called on the Yemeni political forces to continue implementing the GCC initiative and its executive mechanism to preserve the national unity. In a meeting with Religious Guides of the Yemeni armed forces, he called on the political forces who object the idea of national dialogue to come back to reason and cooperate with the national reconciliation government, led by president-elect Abd Rabbou Hadi to preserve the security and stability of Yemen.