Almotamar.net - Preparations for convening the 4th general conference of Yemeni Journalists Syndicate YJS scheduled in Sana’a on Saturday are continuous. The conference will discuss the YJS statute, the code of journalistic ethics election of the syndicate council and the election of a new chairman.
Yassin al-Masoudi is considered the candidate of journalists unanimity for the post of chairman of journalists. He entertains a large-scale support by different press circles in Yemen as he entertains professional characteristics and long experience in syndicalistic work.
Candidate al-Masoudi, who currently occupies the post of deputy chairman of the Al-Thawra Establishment for Press board of directors and deputy editor in chief of the Al-Thawra newspaper, is one of the most prominent syndicalistic leaders in Yemen through his occupation of a number of posts at the YJS and the Arab Journalists Federation.
In 2007 the opposition Yemen Congregation for Reform (Islah) Islamic oriented Party maintained its having political and media sway over the Joint meeting Parties (JMP) block, also consisting of Yemen Socialist Party and the Nasserite Unionist Organisation.
Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria.
Sana'a: Yemen will not be able to combat terror without regional and international cooperation, said a Yemeni official, who warned of the ramifications of letting Yemen fight terrorism alone.
Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point. Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq. Yet as “Battle of Baghdad” begins, factors beyond Bush’s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.