Just a month before he would step down, Yemeni President arrived in the United States late on Saturday following a brief refueling stop at a United Kingdom airport.

Just a month before he would step down, Yemeni President arrived in the United States late on Saturday following a brief refueling stop at a United Kingdom airport.

"President Saleh arrived this evening in the USA for a short-term private medical visit," a spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, Mohammed Albasha, said in a statement.

Saleh is likely to be provided by medical treatment in New York Presbyterian Hospital,  a spokeswoman for the hospital, Kathy Robinson, told AFP: "The president is not currently a patient."
In addition to the medical help, Saleh departure is seen as helping to ease the transition in his country from three decades of his rule.

After h left Yemen last Sunday, Saleh went to Oman, with his wife and five of his children. Earlier this week, he was mistakenly reported to have left Oman.
The embattled leader then flew from Oman to the United States with a brief refueling stop at Stansted Airport outside London.

After months of bloody protests in Yemen, Saleh finally signed a power transfer deal in November that effectively ended his reign.
Saleh was seriously wounded in a bombing at the presidential palace in the capital Sanaa last June, after which he was treated in Saudi Arabia.