The Gulf Cooperation Council meeting, the third in two weeks, would "discuss the Gulf initiative concerning the situation in Yemen," said the Saudi state news agency SPA late Saturday.
Ministers from the six member-states of the oil-rich bloc would hold talks mainly regarding their agreement in past meetings to "hold contacts with the government and opposition in Yemen," it said.
After their latest meeting on April 10, GCC ministers announced a proposal for Saleh to transfer power to his vice president, and for the formation of an opposition-led unity government.
Saleh, who has been in power since 1978, has since January faced protests calling for him to quit. More than 125 people have been killed.
Yemen`s parliamentary opposition, which insists on Saleh`s immediate departure before talks over the country`s future, said Saturday it will send a delegation to Riyadh on Sunday for "consultations" over the GCC proposal.
On Friday, Saleh stood defiant as the elected president of the impoverished country, as supported massed near the presidential palace.
"These popular masses -- these millions -- in this square have come to say `yes` to constitutional legitimacy," Saleh told the crowd of tens of thousands.(*)
(U.H-RN)
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