MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - Members of the Yemeni opposition have said they are confident that Russia will not use its veto right during the UN Security Council's vote on a resolution concerning Yemen.
"First, I can tell you with absolute confidence that Russia will not use its veto right when such a resolution is debated within the [UN] Security Council," Mohammed Salem Basendwah, chairman of Yemen's opposition coalition Joint Meeting Parties, said following his recent visit to Moscow.
Basendwah, a former Yemeni foreign minister, said this in response to a question of whether or not members of Yemen's delegation received a clear answer during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday on whether or not Russia would support the UN Security Council's resolution on Yemen.
The Yemeni opposition member also suggested that the UN Security Council could start to debate this document on Friday, and a final decision regarding this resolution would be adopted in the near future.
"I think that we will not wait for a month or two, until the resolution is adopted. I think that a decision will be made much sooner," he said.
Commenting on the contents of the UN Security Council's draft resolution on Yemen, another member of Yemen's delegation to Moscow, Congregation for Reform Secretary-General Abdul Wahab al-Ansi, said that, among other initiatives, this document proposes forming a committee that would investigate all of the crimes committed by the country's current authorities.