Ba’athis: Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi
In May, the Yemeni Baathists withdrew from the opposition coalition and later supported Ali Abdullah Saleh in the presidential election. In November, Aisha al-Gaddafi was in Sanaa doling out the dough for the revitalization of the Yemeni Baathist Party which will include many former Iraqi Baathists currently in Yemen. President Assad visited in December.
Syrian Baathists in Town
SANA’A- - Delegates from the Syrian Baath Socialist Party arrived Friday in Sana’a on an official visit for talks with Yemeni officials.
The visit comes as a response to an invitation offered to the party by the General People’s Congress (GPC) to discuss means of deepening relations between the two parties and two countries, said the Syrian Baath Party assistant secretary-general, Abdullah al-Ahmar.
He said the delegation would also attend the fourth conference of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Yemen branch.
Sanaa, Yemen,(SANA)-
Assistant Secretary General of the Baath Arab Socialist Party, Abdullah al-Ahmar has stressed the importance of convening the 4th Regional Conference of the Baath Arab Socialist party in Yemen , describing it as a qualitative step to boost the role and contribution of the Baath party to the rise of the Yemeni society.
In his address at the final session of the conference today ,he underlined President Bashar al-Assad’s recent important and successful visit to Yemen and his meeting with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh with the aim of boosting bilateral relations and reaching an Arab efficient stance capable of facing the challenges threatening the Arab nation.
He indicated that what is happening in the Arab region is targeting all the Arab nation and only a certain Arab country , and this necessitates mobilizing of Arab efforts to defend the Arab rights , pointing out that the most important hostile projects are the Greater Middle East , and constructive chaos which the United States is marketing in order to monopolize the resources of the region and to ensure the interests of Israel.
He reiterated Syria’s support to the Palestinian people’s steadfastness and resistance of the Zionist occupation inorder to restore their full rights of the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital , the return of the refugees and freeing the capitive.
He also stressed Syria’s stand by the political process in Iraq inorder to reach an end to the occupation of Iraq and restoration of the Iraqi sovereignty .
Regarding Lebanon, al-Ahmar said that Syria was not interfering
in the current events in brotherly Lebanon but was following up the role of the foreign forces which were targeting the Arab dimensions of Lebanon underlining Syria’s desire to see Lebanon out of its political crisis.
AlAhmar reviewed Syria’s steps which have been taken in the framework of modernization and reform under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad.
A.N.Idelbi
Yemeni VP meets Syrian Baath official, affirms mutual goals, stances.
