| (http://www.tabsir.net/images/qat3.gif) | President Ali Abdullah Saleh has decided to gradually give up open chewing Qat sessions to preserve his valuable time and to avoid exploiting such sessions in meaningless tittle-tattle, the website of the Ministry of Defence said Thursday. The official website said president Saleh started this step months ago and he would not hold open sessions any more except sessions, without qat, for discussing emergency cases in accordance with the public interest. The website quoted some informed sources calling all people who have special or public issues to raise their complaints to specialized units, local authority or judiciary or concerned government bodies, to avoid the need to refer such troubles to the president to waste his time, as the source said. President Saleh called, in his address to nation on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the government, the legislative authority, the local authority, the civil society organizations and others to carry their responsibilities and solve problems without delay. Yemenis in different parts of the country are complaining different issues related to living standards, human rights violaitons, price hikes and shortage of public services. The most important issue is the crisis of retired military personnel in southern Yemen. Source: www.newsyemen.net |