Almotamar.net - President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned Saturday against some discordant voices depicting hatred and divisionism that do not serve the national unity and unable to solve even their own problems and affirmed that there is no fear about the unity.

The president, in his speech at the annual Al-Husseiniayh Festival for horse and camel races held in Hudeida today, emphasized that "our motto is the unity or death." The president described the opposition parties' address as repugnant for the people, reminding it of their failure in the local councils and parliamentary elections and demanded the opposition to be the other face of the ruling system and to present suggestions and programmes. The president said they (opposition) mislead themselves as they are the alternative and added the alternative will be worse and affirmed they don't know the policy of the state.

Addressing the attendants of the festival the president warned of terror asking "do you want us to be Sudan with blockade imposed on it or to be another Somalia or Iraq or Afghanistan?" He affirmed to tell the opposition no to the return to the disintegrated past and return to regionalism.

Te president urged the people to love and leaving the complexes of the past and instigating trouble, saying " how good is the democracy in our country and we must protect it and must not be an axe for instigation and sabotage."

On the other hand President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on the Gulf Cooperation Council States and Arab countries to take part in Al-Husseiniayh festival for the next year. He has also hailed the youth participating in the festival and the Ministry of Youth, describing the festival as spectacular.

President Saleh clarified that the youth are the hope of the nation and its aspirations, the faithful guard and pioneers of development and services. "We want youth armed with science with no room for hatred among their ranks or regionalism, science replaces poverty and ignorance and backwardness, only with science peoples live," the president said.

The president urged the government to pay attention to the English language and the technical and vocational education.