President Saleh attends concluding Scouts 1st National Meeting

SANA’A, (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh attended on Thursday a ceremony on concluding activities of the 1st National Meeting of Scouts and Guides organized by the Scouts Association during August 4-9. In the ceremony, President delivered a speech in which he expressed happiness in attending this ceremony, thanking Ministry of Youth and Sports for the good preparation of the meeting for it helps inculcating the national unity among them. “The educated and well-enlightened youths are pillars of the future and the hope of this nation for they represent more than 75 % of the population of the Republic. We celebrate today this great institution ( Scouts Association) that would get my personal interest as well as care of the government and concerned authorities,” President said. He talked about the suffering of the people due to price hikes saying, “I directed the government for holding an emergent meeting to study this matter to make it obvious to the people to avoid exploiting this suffering for manipulating people feelings. ” MS/AM Saba