Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2005/906/Press Review]

20 Dec. 2005
Main headlines

– Yemeni intellectuals ask President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stick to his decision of not running presidential elections

– The JMP initiative a necessity for coming out of the crisis the country experiences

– Security retains the NUO secretary general at entrance of Aden, refuses to deal with his parliamentary identification card

– Prosecution interrogates officials from the Watani bank

Columnist Mahmoud Sharafuldin has written an article saying the closing statement of the GCC summit concluded last Monday in Abu Dhabi has been void of any mention or indication to renewal of Yemen's request to join the GCC; it has sufficed in including the statement a recommendation to the GCC Supreme council on supporting developmental projects in Yemen. Observers have considered that as a form of indirect rejection of the request whereas the Yemeni foreign minister deemed it as a step toward more cooperation.

Yemeni politicians have viewed the Gulf stand as a blow embarrassing for the Yemeni government death-defying request for joining the GCC. The GCC has not mentioned certain conditions wanted from Yemen to meet before accepting the request, as the European deal with the American request for joining the European Union.
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