Price-related complaint? Call 147 [Archives:2007/1056/Local News]

SANA`A , June 2 ) Minister of industry and trade Yahia Al-motawakel has announced the number 174 as free number to recieve people`s complaints and messages about prices conflicts. He further indicated that the role of the ministry is to settle the prices not to identify them.

The minister refered in his meeting with journalists last Thursday to the difficulty of gaining information that was then became the title of that meeting. The minister gave recommendations to the official newspapers to set a list of food staff`s price.

The minister also announced that the ministry has specified a fax number to recieve questions of journalists to be answered by the ministry. In his speech with journalists the minister criticized what he named as ” a hesitated governmental policy” which, he said, causes more negative impacts in most cases .

The minister also talked a bout a planned policy for the ministry towards giving standards to bakeries and shops which, he says, two thirds of them lack identified standards.

The prices hiking , the Minister believes, is a result of Econmy Circle and other outer reasons, reffering to the previous governmental decisions as “lacking for legitimacy.” Meanwhile, he called journalists not to deal with economical situation as a current crisis but to work together in order to solve such phenomena.

The Yemeni Economy as described by Almotawakel is a ” small economy” exposed to many internal and external dangers for it is mainly attatched to oil as a basic source.

The minister who has a good relation with journalists did not call them to decrease pressure on his ministry. Therefore, he criticized what he called the misresponsibility of journalists toward the economy issue ” the economy processing should be a national issue and not a field for political clashes” the Minister said.
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