[30/March/2008]

DAMASCUS, March 30 ( Saba)- Yemen called Arab nation to establish an Arab atomic energy agency for nuclear researches and using them for peaceful means, especially generating electricity.

In Yemen's speech delivered by Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi in the 20th Arab summit, being currently held in Syrian capital Damascus, Hadi also called for establishing an Arab fund for development for serving development aims in Arab world.

He confirmed that the current challenges faced by Arab nation oblige all to boost Arab solidarity and activating joint national work.

He voiced Yemen's proposal that Arab League's headquarters must be the permanent and suitable location for holing Arab summits as needed and that any country must be responsible on her delegation's expenditures for avoiding any burdens on the hosting country.

He renewed Yemen's call for international community, especially the United States and the Quartet, to exercise pressures against Israel to stop its repeated aggression against Palestinian people and stopping building the separation wall.

He stressed the importance of integrating efforts for eradicating terrorism, confirming Yemen's view on terror fighting which stipulate on not depending only on military and security means, but also getting rid of environments encouraging for terror, topped by poverty and means of combating it.

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