“God willing, I will leave for treatment in the United States and I will return to Sanaa as head of the General People’s Congress party. I ask for forgiveness from all my people, men and women, for any shortcomings during my 33-year-long rule.”
Yemen’s veteran President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has left the country to travel to the US for medical treatment, Yemeni officials say. In a televised “farewell speech” he asked for forgiveness for “any shortcomings” during his 33-year rule. His departure came a day after MPs approved a law giving him immunity from prosecution. (Source)
