Annas [Archives:2006/922/Press Review]

13 Feb.2006
Main headlines

– Donor countries give the government a last chance with demands to be fulfilled in six months

– Decency of elections brings the JMP and the GPC back to dialogue table

– Female Media Forum condemns the official campaign to smear its reputation

An article on the newspaper's front page mentions it is the right of the new minister to give them a space of time before we could announce our despair from them. We cannot the news names before we read their CVs or activities in the coming period which seems to be meant to be an attempt for effecting necessary reforms called for by those interested in the future of this country inside and outside.

After the announcement of the cabinet shuffle we tried contacting national leaders and personalities in power and the opposition to sound out their impressions about the new formation. Nevertheless, most of them preferred to keep silent under claim of not being hasty in giving judgments about causes of the surprise reshuffle and the persons it brought to power until the image become clearer.

It seems Yemen is waiting for a new stage where the Yemeni administration looks too be forced to shake the stagnant waters under insistence of the international pressure that suffers from frustration because of ignoring its warnings. As a first impression some appointments that have been announced receive welcome of all and some we hope they carry cut what is expected from them. We think we are at a threshold of a new stage and we have to look for a ray of and to tell the new ministers you are welcome into the field of responsibility.
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