Al-Thawry [Archives:2008/1118/Press Review]
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Top Stories
– YSP mourns Ba Shammakh's death, condemns Bhuto's assassination
– Sana'a University teaching staff demands security officers be replaced
– Government updates military campaign in Shara'ab district of Taiz, citizens horrified
– Arab and Muslim nations lose Yemen's wise man, Sheikh Al-Ahmar
– Islamic leaders and organizations mourns demise of Sheikh Al-Ahmar
– YSP leader: Absence of political will made ruling party unready for dialogue
Dr. Mohammed Saleh Ali, Chairman of Yemeni Socialist Party's Political Circle declared that absence of the political will on the part of ruling General People Congress made this party unready for the dialogue, as well as unconvinced of any fruits expected to be reached by such a dialogue, the YSP-affiliated weekly reported in one of its front page articles. “We have never seen any serous and unified political will for ruling party to be reflected in its positions of the dialogue. As a result, we found no qualified GPC members to dialogue with, considering GPC a national partner with credibility and enough will to manage balanced and serious dialogue with the aim of addressing all the national issues presented to the dialogue table,” the weekly quoted Ali as saying.
The YSP leader added that GPC officials must be brave enough to take brave decisions regarding the persisting political and social issues. He urged the ruling party to cease insulting and humiliating the dialogue, which functions as an effective tool for managing differences between political opponents in Yemen, mainly when the issues presented to the dialogue table are very important and of high concern to all the national parties. There are various issues presented to the dialogue table for discussion such as the constitutional amendments related with electoral suffrages.
According to Ali, any dialogue has criteria and morals that must not submit to the ruling party's will and desire in a way helping it select any agreement terms to abide by and ignore others. He concluded that such ruling party's policies make the dialogue lose its significance and vitality.
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