Al-Wahdawi [Archives:2007/1110/Press Review]
Tuesday, December 4
Top stories
– Tair Mountain volcano goes active once again while geologists expect threats to increase
– Mukalla security authorities arrest editor of Muharrer weekly
– Army fighter jet crashes down in Harf Sefyan district of Amran
– Ruling party forces students and servants to evict their schools and worksites and go out for backing its functions in Taiz
– Tens of thousands of Taiz people hold a huge rally insisting on corrupt officials to flee the country
– We will inevitably return to Yemen, says former Prime Minister in exile
The former Yemeni Prime Minister, Haidar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, who is currently in exile along with other Socialist Party leaders in Oman, confirmed that he and his companions will inevitably return to Yemen, the weekly reported in a front page story. “Whenever we see positive reflections with regard to resolving the persisting problems and ending the nationwide standoff, we will return home,” the newspaper quoted Al-Attas as saying. The YSP leader, who is the first Prime Minister after the Reunification was established on May 1990, urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh to care for his country and people.
According to Al-Attas, politicians existing inside the country are responsible for the current standoff and the deteriorating situations of the country. “We want to restore justice to our brothers in Yemen, as it is they who are in the field and it is they who endure constant sufferings produced by the government's failed policies,” Al-Attas said.
Such statements made by Al-Attas, who has been in exile sine the 1994 Civil War, come as a response to President Saleh's call on opposition leaders abroad to return home while giving his address before thousands of people on the 40th Anniversary of the National Independence Day. Yemeni media quoted sources closer to the ruling General People Congress as saying that Saleh's call is addressed to the former Vice-President Ali Salem Al-Beidh, Al-Attas and other YSP leaders, who fled the country in 1994.
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