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Email Print Related News Analysis: Yemen's Saleh hangs on, still hopes to outwit foes 7:58am EDT Dollar shortages hit Yemen ship container trade 10:57am EDT Analysis & Opinion Why Congress should vote no on raising the debt ceiling Deals wrap: BP’s Rosneft deal on the rocks? Related Topics World » Saudi Arabia » Yemen » Protesters carry posters of the revolutionary leader Che Guevara (L) and the late president of North Yemen Ibrahim al-Hamdi during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 13, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA | Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:57am EDT SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's opposition rejected on Thursday an offer to join Gulf-mediated talks in Saudi Arabia on a transfer of power in the Arabian Peninsula state and set a two-week deadline for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The opposition said the Gulf Arab mediation offer, which was to have included talks in Riyadh as early as Saturday, was not clear enough on how fast a proposed transition would take place, even after a request for clarification from Gulf ambassadors. "We have renewed our emphasis on the need for speeding the process of (Saleh) standing down to within two weeks. Therefore we will not go to Riyadh," said Mohammed al-Mutawakkil, a prominent opposition leader. Gulf foreign ministers, seeking to ease the threat that Yemeni instability could pose to the region, had invited Saleh and his opponents to talks on a transfer of power to end a political standoff that risks devolving into violence. Saudi and Western allies of Yemen fear that a prolonged standoff in Yemen, where Saleh has faced two months of protests demanding his ouster, could ignite clashes between rival military units and cause chaos that benefits an active al Qaeda wing operating in the poor, mountainous country. Saleh has accepted the Gulf framework for talks, but the opposition has seesawed. It first rejected the Gulf offer, citing the lack of a transition timeframe and complaining it appeared to offer Saleh a waiver from prosecution. But opposition figures then met the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait Tuesday seeking clarification of the GCC understanding of a "transfer of power," with some hinting that talks could start as early as Saturday. Mutawakkil, however, said the opposition could reach an agreement on granting assurances against prosecution, leaving the timing of a transfer as the major holdup. "We didn't find in the clarifications that the ambassadors presented anything that meets our demands for an immediate removal," Mutawakkil said. "There was nothing new from the Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors." A Saudi foreign ministry spokesman had no comment, nor did an official for the 6-member Gulf Cooperation Council. DEMONSTRATIONS IN RAIN Saleh, who has already lost control of several provinces, has warned of civil war and the break-up of Yemen if he is forced to step aside before organizing parliamentary and presidential polls over the next year. More than 116 protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces since late January, and there are fears the violence could escalate in the impoverished country, half of whose 23 million people own a gun. "This is proof that the opposition doesn't want dialogue or peaceful solutions, but want to come to power through chaos," Tarek al-Shami, a spokesman for Yemen's ruling party, said of the opposition decision to turn away from the talks. 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