http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Russia welcomes decision of the authority and opposition to address crisis by dialog [The Source: hadhramout.info/almotamar.net - 06/04/2011]

Moscow- Federative Russia has on Monday welcomed the decision of the authority and the opposition in Yemen the addressing of the crisis witnessed in the national arena via the dialogue.

The Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov has said in a press conference he held in Moscow Wednesday , “ I view this decision positively because we have continuously called dealing with problems in Yemen and other countries by the way of dialogue.”Lavrov has expressed his hope that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) would continue its mediation efforts to settle the situation in Yemen, expressing his confidence that those efforts would inevitably lead to certain positive results.Lavrov added that the issue of reforms in the Middle East and North Africa must be dealt with negotiations and not by the use of force.He added that it is obvious that reforms have become ripe and it is not permitted to delay about them because the population wants taking effective steps for settling the economic and social problems and guarantee of political pluralism. The Russian foreign Minister has stressed the necessity of tackling those issues by negotiation and not to impose reforms by the military force.