Almotamar.net - The National Defence Council (NDC) on Wednesday affirmed the measures taken by the government and judicial authorities by sending to court all the elements violating the constitution and the law and involved in the acts of sabotage, unrest and chaos.

The NDC stressed, in its meeting today chaired by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the commander in chief of the armed forces, on the speed of carrying out what the cabinet approved of transferring all financial appropriations concerning development and services projects in governorates to the local authorities in the manner enhancing powers of the local authorities as stipulated in the law.

The National Defence Council also considered the report presented by the committee formed by the cabinet concerning the follow-up of the events and developments in the national arena and settling the issues. The committee is chaired by the Vice-President Abid Rabu Mansour Hadi. the report includes the measures and decisions the committee has taken regarding the issues and subjects that have been presented to it and has discussed them in the past period pertaining to the events and their field developments and in the fields of security, information and administrative and development.

The NDC approved referring all that was mentioned in the report to government authorities, the local authority and the judicial authority for taking executive measures that would lead to achieving public peace and safeguarding the social peace as well as to speed up development efforts in various Yemeni governorates.

The council also studied proposals on developing the local authority system and the moving to the local rule of wide-range powers. As a first step the council approved acceleration of the legal measures for amending the law of the local authority concerning the election of governors of provinces via elector body in each governorate composed of members of local councils of governorates and districts and that is due to the dictates f the public interest and for expansion of the people's participation in running local affairs in embodiment of the democratic exercise and in service of goals of development. The candidates to the governor post are the chairman of the local council provided he meets the legal provisions. This would be a first step to be followed by election of the heads of districts.

The council also studied the fabrication of demonstrations for destructive motives aimed at impeding the march of development and investment and directed the concerned authorities to take the executive and security measures for preventing unlicensed demonstrations. The council also approved the basic goals of the strategy of the political and executive work and the information address of the next period and directed to the speeding of finalizing the plan and to be referred to the cabinet to approval and execution.

The council also listened to report on the terrorist events and operations perpetrated by some terrorist elements and the measures that have been taken about them and the council emphasized on the security apparatuses to take measures of investigation and arrest perpetrators of those acts and to send them to court as well as taking precautionary and preventive measures.