The Gulf Cooperation Council is sending a top official back to Yemen to try to salvage a deal to ease Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power, after the long-time leader refused to sign the agreement. Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which brokered the accord, met Sunday at the group's Riyadh headquarters to discuss the crisis. The group said it was sending the GCC's secretary-general back to Yemen and hoped to remove all obstacles blocking a final agreement. Earlier, Gulf officials said the deal's signing ceremony had been indefinitely postponed. They said Mr. Saleh had reportedly refused to sign the deal as President as stipulated in the document and instead wanted to sign the initiative as head of the ruling party. The GCC plan calls for President Saleh to hand over power to a deputy and resign within 30 days of signing the initiative. It would establish a unity government that would include opposition members. A presidential election would take place two months after Mr. Saleh leaves office.