Sana'a - Saba:
The Minister of Culture and Tourism inaugurated on Sunday at Al-Tahrir Square the Folk Arts Performances Festival in celebration of the National Day of the Republic of Yemen, May 22.
The four-day festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with funding from the Heritage and Cultural Development Fund under the slogan "From Sana'a to Gaza," features traditional Bara' dances accompanied by expressive Zamil chants that reflect local and regional realities, emphasizing the importance of resisting the forces of hegemony and arrogance—"America and Israel"—and their tools: the collaborators and submissive normalizers.
During the inauguration, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dr, stressed the significance of holding this festival to celebrate unity, reaffirm commitment to it, and defend it against foreign interference, traitors, and mercenaries.
He noted that through this festival, Yemenis send a message to the world, traitors, and mercenaries that the schemes and plots to divide the nation and revert it to the pre-May 22, 1990 era will fail in the face of the determination and resolve of honorable people across all provinces—north, south, east, and west—and their steadfast defense of unity as a strategic choice that cannot be abandoned or compromised.
The Minister emphasized that Yemeni unity was destined to endure and cannot be relinquished, and that honorable, free Yemenis will defend it across the nation, offering their blood and lives in its protection.
He also addressed the suffering of the Yemeni people in the occupied southern and eastern provinces, where rising prices, declining incomes, and deteriorating living conditions prevail, alongside repression, arrests, and torture. This necessitates collective responsibility and unity to cleanse these provinces of the occupiers and their mercenaries.
Minister Al-Yafai further highlighted that unity is the fundamental pillar in confronting Zionism, both now and in the future.
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