Al-Usboo [Archives:2003/651/Press Review]

10 July 2003
Main headlines:
– Tribes hinder demarcation of borders between Yemen and Saudi Arabia
– Two people from the group of Hutat arrested in Aden and Abyan
– American delegation continues inspection of security measures at Yemeni sea ports
– Arab meting on fish wealth to be held in Sana'a late this month
– Mediation to calm down armed clashes in Sana'a

Columnist Ali al-Maqri says in his article that he does not agree with some politicians an intellectuals regarding their stance versus the question of Arab unity as an urgent priority for the current Arab situation. He argues that there were many Arab rulers who called for the unity and confronting the enemy in an attempt to escape from their internal problems and crises who they were the cause of them. Despite that all political realities confirm the impossibility of Arab rulers agreement and heir changing the slogan of unity into reality and practice due to the nature of their regimes, we read and hear some people demanding those rulers to put the question of unity as a priority. Those usually offer many justifications and reasons for their demand but in reality they are siding with those despotic rulers under this priority or that of confronting the enemy that is conspiring on the Arab nation unity.
Now it is necessary to demand the possibility of founding free political and economic relations among the Arab countries founded on joint interests, as is he case with the successful regional relations all over the world, and to place democracy as an urgent priority to the unity. If democracy is established in every Arab country where the citizen is granted his political, economic and social rights without falsification, it would then guarantee finding a modern renaissance the interests of which are to be integrated with the regional and national environment without the need of slogans.
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