Al-Shoura [Archives:2005/896/Press Review]

16 Nov.2005
Main headlines

– Number of presidential candidates reaches six

– Citizens' increasing fears from birdflu

– 670 members of Yemen Journalists Syndicate approve non-legitimacy of the Syndicate Council

– Parliamentarians insist on subpoenaing

– A Yemenia Airways hostess disappears in London

– 176 Iraqi prisoners subjected to mistreatment

The newspaper political editor says in his article it is true the foreign policy of any country has its requirements and requisites but those requirements do not necessarily mean to attract all attention of the country's leadership. The attention paid to foreign policy should not be at the expense of urgent local issues and concerns.

We mention this while following up the political and media momentum focusing on the latest political tour of the president of the republic. Regardless of what the tour has achieved of successes and positive results, its coincidence with many of national very sensitive issues makes the ordinary people think that they are issues neglected. It is especially so under the big media campaign about the foreign political tour. The corruption lobby has found it an appropriate opportunity through the preoccupation of the media to pass on many of deals and mistakes. One of these examples is the attempt to pass on a draft on the final account of the state budget for the year 2004 inside the parliament. The leading figures of corruption in the government of the so-called financial and administrative reform try through this draft and the pressures they practice to pass it on inside the parliament.
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