National Solidarity Council calls for Sa’adah peace and national unity

The Shura Council has called for a comprehensive strategy to preserve national unity and resurrect national development.

Yemen is currently suffering from critical political problems such as the war in Sa’adah, violent clashes in the southern and eastern governorates, and the spread of riots around the country which are destabilizing the state and threatening national unity.

“All political and social parties must deal with the claims made by the southern and eastern provinces before they reach a more difficult stage,” urged the Shura (Consultative) Council of National Solidarity (SCNS) in its second annual meeting held last Monday. It was stressed that Yemen needs solutions before it enters “a crisis that only God knows how to solve.”

The SCNS presented its vision, which focuses on two axes: the first aims to deal with human rights issues, and the second is related to political issues, aimed at resolving the existing problems in the southern and eastern provinces. 

The SCNS project would include eight processes to resolve legal issues and demands issued by the release of each and every detainee of opinion and anyone who had not committed a felony affecting the rights of others, calling for the referral of criminal proceedings to the judiciary during the time period set by the law.

This organism also called to solve the problem within the southern and eastern provinces and asked for the return of fugitives that fled to the mountains. Such fugitives are asked to return to their homes and to renounce violence, without fear that security forces will prosecute them. They also demand that security forces stop chasing citizens, that the units from military forces mobilized after the summer war of 1994 return to their  jobs and that jobs are regulated in accordance with the retirement law.

The Council called on the return of the lands whose contracts have been cancelled since 1994 to their rightful owners and asked for a new address of the employment problems.

Regarding political issues, Council members also suggested the introduction of four processes in order to restore balance of career and partnership politics in the civil sovereign institutions, stressing the need to accommodate anyone who wants to join the armed forces and its colleges.

The Shura Council during its second meeting at 22nd May hall.

The requests concerning the local governance, the development of a law for the local authority and the completion of construction works, were also raised by the Council and discussed during the meeting. They suggested relying on the information provided by an academic group tasked with follow-ups of local governance and development tracks in coordination with the Shura Council equally elected from all provinces.

Hussein al-Ahmar, the chairman of the SCNS, called on the Yemeni government to end the war in Sa’adah and to help the many displaced people, whose number has reached more than 80,000 people, return to their homes. “We do not call for war but for peace, and our goal is to end Sa’adah’s sedition,” he stressed. 

Al-Ahmar confirmed that his Council refuses all separatist calls harming the national unity, which they consider as a spirit and body that no one must touch, demanding legal rights in peaceful ways.

Mohammed Abdel-Elah al-Qadhi, chairman of the Shura Council in SCNS, explained that the second meeting of the council focused on national issues such as revenge cases, and attempted to address the problems of the southern provinces.

Vice chairman of the SCNS, Sheikh Ali Abd Rabbo al-Qadhi, presented an initiative of the Council aimed at addressing the problems of deterioration the country is experiencing in political, security, economic and social realms. Other issues to be addressed include the negative outcomes that affect national unity, social peace, personal and national security, and that threaten to undermine the stability of the country.

"The initiative seeks to provide treatments and solutions to ensure the state of equality, justice and freedom, development and consolidation of democratic values," al-Qadhi said. "Such dangerous phenomena in Yemen are a result of deep imbalances that the state must face and find solutions to, even if such task are difficult and harsh," he added.

Most of these phenomena and crises are due to the war in Sa'adah, government mistakes and negative  outcomes when dealing with the administration of the southern provinces. Additional factors include the weakness of the role of state institutions to comply with their constitutional roles and to stop the spread of corruption that is devastating them, deteriorating the life of Yemeni citizens and increasing unemployment and poverty.

Al-Qadhi explained that the current situation led to all local and international organizations being forewarned about the possibility of Yemen entering in a vicious cycle of deterioration, state failure and the collapse of security, economic and living conditions. It is thus necessary and urgent to control the present chaos for the sake of  Yemen’s future.

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