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Hilal discusses key issues in Yemen politics in on-line forum
Real estate news By Observer Staff
Oct 8, 2007 - 12:17:32 PM
Minister of Local Administration, Abdul-Qader Hilal was a guest at Hiwar on-line Forums in Yemen last week and responded to many questions regarding the new local authority law. Hilal talked about many things including the situation in the southern governorates. He said that the government is actively working to solve the problems and that some of the issues had already been resolved. "There is a discourse that some are trying to spread which is aiming to make Yemen insecure, unstable and haunted with bloody strife," said Hilal. "This discourse is trying to take Yemen back to what happened in 1994."
These 'separatists' as Hilal describes them have been defeated by the will of the public in the past century. "People in Yemen are very concerned about what is being perpetrated by those who want to turn back the clock to how Yemen was before unification, but this will never happen. Those people must know that people in Aden, Lahj, Ibb, Mareb and all the Yemen cities are not simply pawns in their game of chess." "The international community is completely convinced that Yemen has a key role to play in the region; without being united this role can never be played in the best interests of the region," said Hilal.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has established some committees to look at citizens' problems in the southern governorates and has directed the head of these committees to solve them. "The most important step that we are taking is enhancing the local authority that President Saleh announced last Ramadan. Yemen still has many things to achieve in order to reach the desired administrative reform in local authorities," said Hilal. Hilal then talked about the dispute between the government and the opposition and said that both disagreement and agreement is needed and this is what makes Yemen a real democracy.
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