ADEN, Oct 14, (Saba)- President Ali Abdullah Saleh delivered an address
in a carnival at May 22 Stadium, Aden, marking the 40th anniversary of
14th October Revolution.

"Today, we honor the memory of the jolly 14th October Revolution in its
40th anniversary. The revolution erupted in the impregnable mounts of
Radfan to force the occupation out of the homeland," said Saleh opening
his speech.

"However lengthy an occupation might be, it must come to an end. The occupants
encroached the north of Yemen for over 130 years, but they were eventually
forced out as all the citizens were involved in resisting the occupation,"
added the President.

He said: "No mercy at all for those who collaborated with occupation but
were driven out together with the occupants in return." Saleh said that
"any Arab country will force out those who host the occupants before it
drives out the occupants themselves."

"Today we are celebrating in the country's glorious city of Aden, the
trade and economic hub. The whole nation, not only the population of Aden,
are overpowered by ecstasy over the this great occasion. This makes lucid
how identical the 26th September and 14th October revolutions are identical
to each other."

Recalling the struggle of the heroes, Saleh prayed for the rest of the
souls which were sacrificed in defense of "the revolution, republic emergence
and unification."

'It is high time,' the President continued, 'to transform [ the country]
from the revolutionary legitimacy to a state of law and order, boost the
economy, development, freedom and principles of respecting opposing viewpoints.'

" [It is] A transformation toward human building and central state building
in a manner that serves development and economy, apart from overstating
and devotees mobilizing' President Saleh elaborated.

H.E gave the nation the "glad tidings" of new oil discoveries "in the
eastern and central provinces." According to President Saleh "commercial
quantities" of oil estimated to be 390 million barrels of oil were discovered.
"More oil and gas discoveries are yet to come" however.

"We are seeing really actions in realms of constructing roads, telecommunication
networks and education facilities."

Shifting focus to regional issues, Saleh started saying "What is most
passion-stirring on the media of today is the Zionist terrorism. However,
the foreign media is seen to have unfairly entrenched terrorism accusations
against Arabs and Moslems. "Zionists were the nucleus and teachers of
terrorism. We are viewing massacres against Palestinian children and women."


He called for awakening the Arab nations to align together and respond
to intellectual terrorism being exercised against them. "Presently we
are in need for common work" in order to withstand challenges facing the
Arab and Moslem worlds. President Saleh blamed the Arab world for the
impotence due to which the "ball is now in the court of the Arab and Moslem
world."

"How come? They [ terrorists] are merely some individuals in the Arab
and Islamic world, and we are being under the hammer to fight combat [the
overstated] terror. Eliminate terror inside the US and Europe first, so
that we as an Arab Ummah can be held the ones responsible for fighting
terrorism."

"We are the very victims of terrorism. Terrorism like that which happened
to the USS Cole Destroyer and the oil tanker in Hadramout. We are suffering
from terrorism and we are battling against it. We really don't need to
be taught how to fight terrorism. We shoulder our national responsibilities
in front of the others. We deal with issues one by one. Our security authorities
are extensively investigating terror suspects. We have started to right
up the misleading thoughts of some elements, as well. We have forgiventhose
haven't yet been red-handed in terrorism. This is what the supreme
interests of the nation entail."

Finally President Saleh congratulated the nation again on the jolly anniversary
and thanked the organizers of the event.
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