almotamar.net - Yemeni Businessmen Council accused the chamber of commerce of issuing a statement calling merchants to stage strike in protest to sales tax law. But the chamber of commerce in the capital denied that.

The secretary general of the Businessmen Council Abdulsallam al-Athwari said the chamber of commerce in the capital called in a statement the merchants to strike in protest to the sales tax, describing that as mutiny against the law.

Al-Athwari also called for supporting the state in its confrontation with terror and sedition in Saada instead of practicing strikes that confuse the investment climate I Yemen.

He pointed out that the statement calling for strike was issued by the chamber of commerce and distributed under its supervision after their meeting at the headquarters of the chamber in the capital, but Mahfoudh Bin Shammakh the chairman of the chamber described the statement as "insinuated" and told almotamar.net that the statement does not express the chamber as it does not bear its scamp.

Al-Athwari also demanded the chamber of commerce to issue a statement acquitting itself from the previous one provided that the statement should contain condemnation to the idea of strike and the call for solving problems of the private sector through the constitutional institutions but Shammakh denounced such a demand and said " as soon as we have known about the first forged statement in the name of the chamber we have issued a warning statement published by Al-Thawra newspaper in which we confirmed we are innocent of the statement of strike that was not stamped by the chamber's stamp."