President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi issued on Monday the second Presidential Decree for 2014 calling for the formation a committee tasked with determining the number of regions in a federal state.

The decree issued four articles. The first stipulates the number of members within the committee, which will be headed by President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The committee is composed of 22 members as follows;

1- Abdul-Kareem Al-Eryani,

2-Mohamed Mohammed Qahtan

3-Abu Baker Abdul Razak Ba Dheeb

4-Sultan Hezam Al-Atwani

5-Yassin Omar Makkawi

6-Saleh Ahmed bin Habra

7-Ghaleb Abdullah Motleq al-Dhareai

8-AbdullahSalem Lamlas

9-Nadia Abdul Aziz Al-Saqqaf

10- Afrah Abdul Azia Al-Zouba

11-Khaled Abu Baker Baras

12-Abdul Kader Ali Helal

13-Mohamed Ali Abu Lawhom

14-Moeen Abdul Malik Saeed

15-Ahmed Abu Baker Ba Zarea

16-Yasser Ahmed Salem al-Awadhi

17-Saeed Salem Ba Hakeba

18-Alaezi Hebat allah Ali Shreem

19-Mokebel Nasser Lakerash

20-Awad Mohammed bin al-Wazeer al-Awlaqi

21-Ahmed Mohamed al-Qardeai

22- Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, a member and rapporteur to the committee.

The Presidential committee would be tasked with determining the number of regions in a federal state. Its decisions would be final.

The committee would also discuss the options of having six regions, four in the north and two in the south, or having two regions, one in the north and one in the south. The committee would discuss any options in order to realize a consensus in this case.

According to the Presidential Decree, the committee would submit its final report to the constitution- drafting committee in order to be included in the constitution.

All decisions of the committee must be approved in a consensus, the decree mentioned.