Yemen ready for 20th Gulf Football Championship – Saleh

Saba
SANA’A, Dec. 18 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh has affirmed that Yemen is ready to host the 20th Gulf Football Championship, scheduled to take place in November 2010 in the southern provinces of Aden, Yemen’s commercial capital, and Abyan. In an interview with the Dubai Sport Channel last Tuesday, Saleh said preparing and building the infrastructure necessary for the event is underway, affirming that the central and local authorities are coordinating to make the championship a success. Yemen is happy for hosting the championship by the teams of Arabian Gulf states, he said. Arrangements are ongoing as they should be for the championship and nothing can impede the efforts to make it happen in the specified place and on the set time, Saleh said. The current situation never means life is paralyzed and activities are derailed; and there is no force that can impact on hosting the sport event, which would, for the first time, be organized in Yemen. ‘What has been said and done in some channels and on websites to make the hosting appear unsuccessful are just failed attempts by those seeking dirty gains.’ There are solutions to all problems and those breaking the law and trying to destabilize the nation can’t meet their aim, because we are ready for every thing: to go ahead with our plans as well as tackling those subversive elements, he said. Any country has its own problems but schedules remain, he added. FR