President Saleh renews call of Yemen to hold emergency Arab summit

SANA'A, Dec. 29 (Saba)-President Ali Abdullah Saleh renewed on Monday call of Yemen
to hold emergency Arab summit.

In his speech in the verbal ceremony on first anniversary of the descent Sheikh
Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar, former speaker of the parliament and senior Yemeni
sheikhs, president Saleh said that the summit might be held in Doha capital of Qatar
next Friday to discuss current development in Gaza Strip and the Israeli valiance in
addition to efforts of resolving dispute between Palestinian factions.

He said that the disagreement between these factions gave Zionist entity to raise
its violence against Palestinian people.

President Saleh made it clear that the call for participation of Palestinian
factions was to come out with active steps to enhance unity of the Palestinian
people.

He pointed out to the problem of disagreement between Arab leaderships.

"The strength of the nation centers in its unity, which would be achieved by
offering concessions from these leaders to sever interests of the Arab and Islamic
nation. It is not shame as we already offered for Israel, United States and France
as well as European Union," he said.

Some 300 Palestinians were reportedly killed and more than 1, 000

injured in current Israeli offensive against Gaza

In the ceremony, president Saleh highlighted brave positions of senior resistant
Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar in defending revolution and unity.