President chairs national defence meeting

SANA’A, Feb. 08 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh chaired on Monday a meeting for the National Defence Council. The meeting thrashed out a number of issues, coming on top the situations in the north-west region, in addition to security issues in some governorates with respect to violence and destruction acts committed by the outlawed elements. The Council directed the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) to take all reliable procedures to preserve public security and arrest the perpetrators to be presented to justice, affirming the importance of the local authority and security apparatuses in those governorate to carry out their responsibilities to hunt and arrest those elements and not to allow them the chance to commit destruction actions. It praised the brave battles of the armed and security personnel in performing their tasks through crashing the Saada rebels as well as tracking down on Al-Qaeda elements. The Council affirmed the necessity to continue efforts to reinforce and improve abilities of the defence and security institution in various domains. AM/AM Saba