President Saleh: there is plot against Yemen`s unity

SANA'A, Feb. 26 (Saba) -
President Ali Abdullah Saleh presided over on Saturday a meeting of the armed
forces' leaders.
At the meeting, Saleh discussed with the armed forces' leaders many issues that
concern to the efforts of construction and modernization in the armed forces and
enhancing
the defensive capacity of the country, as well as the role of the military
institution in maintaining the security, stability and national gains.
President Saleh pointed to the importance of this meeting, which comes in complex
and difficult circumstances experienced by the Arab world and Yemen in particular.
"The country is going through great difficulties since four years by fits and
starts between the various political parts and we are trying all means to address
and overcome
these difficulties through democratic means but to no avail, although the political
leadership provided a package of reforms", Saleh explained.
"This package of reforms designed to calm the situations and heal the rift between
all political forces and maintain the security, stability and unity of the
country", Saleh
said noting that there is a hidden and apparent agenda since the end of the 1994
summer war, which is a fire under the ashes.
He pointed that there is a plot against the unity of Yemen, pointing to two
positions emerged clearly over the past years, the first one seeks to separate
Yemen's south
from its north and the other one seeks to turn the north to the priesthood imamate.
"We are confident that our people and the great national institution will abort any
plots and they will not accept to return to the past", Saleh said.
On the sit-ins issues, President Saleh said that the sit-ins and marches are
guaranteed by the Constitution and the law.
He pointed out that the military institution bears full responsibility in
maintaining the security, unity, freedom and democracy in Yemen, adding that the
military institution
is the hard power, which all foreign plots and agendas shatter on its rock.
Yemeni people express everyday their love to this the homeland and their readiness
to sand by the military institution to defend the country and its gains, Saleh
indicated.
"We say to the Yemeni people that the homeland is in safety as long as it is in the
hands of his brave sons, who will defend their unity", Saleh said.
"They are now destroying every nice thing in Aden, for nothing but selfishness and
remnants of colonialism", said Saleh adding that those who commit vandalism acts
are some
mercenaries.
BA