Yemen: Al-Alimi chairs government meeting in Aden

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The President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Dr. Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, chaired a meeting of the government in Aden, in the presence of Council member Dr. Abdullah Al-Alimi Bawazeer, to discuss the priorities of the current stage and support the reform process. The President of the Council stressed the focus on providing salaries and basic services, enhancing security, and mobilizing efforts for the battle of salvation, stressing that economic reforms are the real test of the state's effectiveness, and renewing the directive to implement the decision to unify revenues and deposit them in the Central Bank, inventory state property, and study the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund to manage it. The meeting addressed the humanitarian challenges in light of the need for more than 17 million Yemenis for assistance, calling for the removal of obstacles to the work of organizations, and accelerating the establishment of a national relief agency. On the security side, he praised the achievements in apprehending terrorist cells linked to the Houthi group and shipments of smuggled weapons, stressing that no reforms will succeed without a stable security and judicial environment, and stressing the importance of enhancing the readiness of the armed forces and the immediate announcement of the establishment of a body to care for the wounded. He also called for directing diplomatic work to serve national interests in light of the designation of the Houthi group as a terrorist organization, and urged the documentation of its violations, the release of detainees, and the cessation of sham trials in areas under its control. Al-Alimi saluted Yemeni women, stressing the need for their presence in decision-making positions, considering their absence from the government an institutional defect that must be addressed.