Almotamar.net - Assistant Secretary General of the General People's Congress (GPC) Sadeq Ameen Abu Ras affirmed Saturday that the GPC is the product of thinking of the national movement that had begun since the revolution of 1948 and then the revolution of 26 September. He added that all Presidents, beginning from al-Sallal, were thinking of the subject of the GPC but the determination did not reach the final stage until President Ali Abdullah Saleh assumed power and began to think about and implement it.
Abu Ras also pointed out that the GPC was representing different intellectual orientations when partisan was prohibited and the meeting of the dialogue committee was an embodiment of that. He has also reviewed the first stages of the foundation of the GPC and the method of carrying out the project of referendum on the form of the national charter, pointing out that opinions of all were taken into consideration even of those who were practicing sabotage in the central regions of the country.
In a symposium organised by al-Mithaq Institute BU Ras said the elections that were held for the membership of the GPC were held in a democratic manner that demonstrated the size of all the political forces then in the country. He added that the GPC had depended moderateness and was not extremist or hardliner.
Director of Al-Mithaq Institute Mohammed Hussein al-Aidarous said in an address at the symposium that almost more than 26 years there was no danger threatening Yemen more than the division and there was no worry the national forces in Yemen were enduring greater than the disintegration of its national forces until this country got the wise leadership of president Ali Abdullah Saleh who has led all on the road of unifying the thought and the will under the umbrella of the GPC on the 24th of August 1982.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.