With the conference’s full membership in attendance, members of the NDC’s Presidency decided to adjourn Saturday’s plenary session meeting more than an hour before its scheduled conclusion.

When the meeting was adjourned, the Development Working Group’s representative was about halfway through a reading of the group’s first session final report.

NDC Vice President, Abdulkarim Al-Eryani said on Saturday that the group’s final report was incomplete and that it did not include the results which all working groups reached, and which were consensually amended with the inclusion of NDC members’ notes.

“The presidency will reformulate the final report and present it on Sunday; this is because the current report included issues which failed to receive the final agreement of members of each working group,” said Al-Eryani.

Following the adjourned meeting, University professor and NDC member Najat Juma’an expressed concern that not only had the reading of the group’s report been cut short, but that votes would also be delayed.

“Speaking for myself, I believe in people’s good intentions; but other people, they might feel suspicious as to why the items weren’t submitted for a vote now,” said Juma’an.

After saying that such delays could cause members to lose faith in the NDC Presidency, Juma’an added, “But we have to be trusting, especially since we are moving on from a transitional period in which people lost trust in everybody.”

Three of the nine working groups were earlier excluded from presenting their reports for votes at the second plenary session because they failed to produce decisions and include outside recommendations in their reports.

The three groups in question are the Sa’ada Issue, Southern Issue and State-Building Working Groups. Their reports will be reviewed and voted upon at the conclusion of the conference’s final plenary session.