Al-Wahda [Archives:2004/736/Press Review]

5 May 2004
Main headlines
– FM: Yemen's initiative regarding Iraq would be discussed by Arab foreign ministers
– Education minister: 120 million dollars, support from the World Bank to education and building a factory for production of school requirements
– Field studied to discuss the health situation in the country
– More than 10 thousand traffic accidents last year
Columnist Qadriyah al-Jifri says in an article the republic of Yemen is among a few countries that adopted the way of democracy as an approach and followed it and implemented its articles. It has therefore announced the political and organizational plurality, the freedom of opinion and counter-opinion through publications of various political parties. The civil society has also got established as a support for the political as aspect of democracy. The parliament and local councils have also been formed as an inevitable result of democracy, in addition to other things came within democracy.
All those developments have prepared Yemen to be among the democratic countries and the world has therefore welcomed it and recognised that and the clearest testimony is the convening of the regional conference of democracy that included many countries and attended by many heads of state from the world over.
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