Almotamar.net - Assistant secretary general of the General People's Congress (GPC) Sheikh Sultan al-Barakani on Sunday considered calls of the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) for staging sit-in as just attempts to remind people about them, saying their presence and absence is the same.

Sheikh al-Barakani offered leaderships of the JMP the possibility of lending them GPC's masses after their failure in Taiz sit-in and advised them to rectify their mistakes they had committed in the elections of 2006.

In response to a question on the JMP call for sit-in in the districts of Shamaiteen in Taiz and Lahj governorate and sit-in continuation in the next period, al-Barakani said," We realize that the JMP has not any work at the political or the social level and they want to remind the masses about them in the hope of using that in the elections of 2009."

The GPC's assistant secretary general added that it the behaviour of the JMP is not something new. They have behaved like that ahead of the presidential and local elections with a long campaigns of symposiums and meetings but they reaped regret and "we are sure that in April 2009 they will reap regret again."

Al-Barakani maintained that however hard the JMP tried to prove it is still alive that will not benefit them because the JMP is empty-handed and completely unable to offer a better alternative to the people.

Al-Barakani added that the GPC and its government are studying many alternatives regarding the high prices which are the biggest concern from the government because the GPC feels suffering of the people and impact of international high prices and it is very worried because of that. He said dealing with the issue of prices cannot be done through raising slogans or fomenting or sending accusations randomly because the issues of the homeland is the responsibility of all rather than a rulers and "we are all responsible for the solution and we have not asked the JMP to think instead of us about the solution but we say it is our duty to shoulder the responsibility and think reasonably together."

Al-Barakani called on the JMP to correct its mistakes and reconsider the programmes that its defeated leaders had stuck to stay in their positions.