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main driving forces responsible for continuing and expanding the crisis in Yemen are also outside
the country. In the pursuit of military supremacy in the region, Riyadh refuses to cooperate with
the United Nations. By transferring military command of the Yemeni part of the coalition forces
to General Ali Mohsen, President Hadi has reduced his ability to control the situation and in-
duced the members of the Yemeni alliance to consolidate political leadership in Sana'a. The sit-
uation in the North can easily grow into a regional disaster. A conflict is brewing in the South
fraught with the possible fragmentation of that part of the country. The central issue of peace
settlement is a fast termination of the military operation by the Saudi coalition and a removal of
blockade to ease the delivery of humanitarian cargoes to the affected population. This is the
only way to stop a mechanism making "tick the Yemen time bomb."
Электронное приложение к журналу «Международная жизнь»