Almotamar.net - President Ali Abdullah Saleh called Monday for joining all national forces to curb activity of brokers of investment in Yemen. The president stressed that action would encourage investors to implement pioneering project contributing to absorb students and unemployment.

In a ceremony where he honored top university graduates in various specialties numbering 169 from the University of Sana'a the president said "It is regretful that there are who commit acts and practices hindering the increasing influx of investment to the homeland and then they allege that the streets are crowded with unemployment. We tell those you are who block absorption of this unemployment and impede investment and development and therefore you are corrupt."

President Saleh added "we have adopted encouragement of investment, established the Public Authority for Investment and emphasised ending duality in finishing dealings of investors by confining them to a single window, i.e. the Public Authority for Investment as well as to stop brokers wherever they were because they hinder the law of investment, where it be in some government establishments or others. The president said those brokers, if not paid money by the investor, they will tell him he cannot carry out his project in Yemen and the law does not grant him the required advantages and even he is given the plot of land he would not be able to get it and other such claims that make the investor worried.

President Saleh added that peoples are built by cadres well armed with science and knowledge and thus "we have to take care of primary, university, technical and vocational education in the manner meeting needs of development for highly qualified cadres in various specialties.

The president urged the ministries of higher education and technical and vocational education to focus on the quality rather than quantity regarding university outputs of cadre. He also stressed the importance that the government focuses on vocational and technical education and expansion in establishment of colleges of society. He said that does not mean there is no need for university education because "we are in dire need of university education and higher education."