YSP to hold fifth conference [Archives:2005/860/Local News]

Hassan Al-Zaidi
SANA'A- The Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) is expected to stage its fifth general conference on July 26. The event is due to last for three days.

The conference is due to be attended by around two thousand representatives from different Yemeni governorates and some YSP leaders who are now outside the country, as well as newly elected members of the party existing in Yemen.

A spokesman for the YSP said it is illegal to deny the party leaders who are abroad their right to attend the conference unless they themselves do not want to attend.

A source at the YSP denied any postponement of the conference and confirmed the party will discuss all the matters scheduled in its agenda.

The YSP will elect new leading figures and any change in the party leadership will be done under decisions of the general conference, the source added.
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