President welcomes national partnership with political forces

TAIZ, May 21 (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh welcomed on Friday a national partnership with all political forces in light of the constitution and law and within the framework of a collective agreement.In his national speech delivered on the 20th anniversary of the Unification Day of Yemen, President Saleh called upon all political parties and organizations and citizens inside and outside Yemen to carry out a responsible national dialogue within the framework of the constitutional institutions without preconditions or obstacles. “The basic foundation of such dialogue should be the February agreement signed between the General People’s Congress and the Joint Meeting Parties represented in the parliament”, Saleh added. “In light of the results of dialogue, a government could be formed from all influential political forces represented in the parliament, especially the basic partner in achieving unity and our partners to defend it with the aim of holding parliamentary elections on its scheduled date in light of the constitutional legitimacy and political pluralism”.”This reflects our keenness to turn over a new page and eliminate impacts resulted by the 1993 crisis and the 1994 summer war”, the President said.Saleh pointed out that he gave his directives to release all detainees on the background of the sedition created by the Houthies in Saada and also detainees who violated the law in some directorates in the provinces of Lahj, Abyan and Dhalae.”We hope they would benefit from this amnesty and become good citizens”, he added.YASaba