Ahmed bin Dhaghar, assistant secretary-general of the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC), told Saba News Agency that the talks were “positive and constructive.”
However, Al-Arabiya Channel showed him voicing his government's concerns over the escalation of the situation in Yemen, adding that the meeting in Abu Dhabi could not deliver an immediate solution to the crisis.
"The talks centered on ways and means of achieving stability in Yemen and at the same time allowing a peaceful transfer of power," he said.
A delegation of GPC and National Democratic Coalition Parties (NDCP) members headed by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's political advisor Abdul-Karim Al-Eryani attended the talks in Abu Dhabi.
Yemen's opposition coalition rejected the GCC's initiative since it didn't propose the immediate resignation of the president.
On the other hand, Yemen's Ministry of Interior said that five soldiers have been killed and 591 injured in clashes with protesters since the beginning of the unrest in the country.
The Yemeni government has blamed the opposition's Joint Meetings Parties for the escalation of the violence in the country.
On Tuesday evening, a security source accused the opposition's “militia” of injuring 50 soldiers and kidnapping 10 others.
On Wednesday, thousands of protesters demonstrated around the streets of capital Sanaa denouncing the recent clashes with police that left six protesters dead and called for the ouster of the regime.
Similar demonstrations were organized in other Yemeni provinces, including Taiz and Ibb, to express solidarity with the victims of the protests and to mount pressure on the regime. In Yemen's southern port city of Aden, a soldier was killed and two more injured on Wednesday when unknown gunmen opened fire on their patrol car, a local journalist told Arab News by telephone.
The journalist said that two pro-democracy protesters were injured in clashes with police in the city as officers tried to prevent them from erecting barricades to block the roads. The city has witnessed a huge security presence since the beginning of the Egyptian-inspired protests seeking to overthrow the Yemeni leader.
Meanwhile, civil disobedience in the city has brought life in the city to a standstill. Shops, government facilities and schools were closed on Wednesday.
