Democratic Palestine : 18 (ص 28)
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- Democratic Palestine : 18 (ص 28)
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all attempts at military attacks launched from outside. There
were dangerous, deviant practices on the economic front, car-
ried out by the conspirators, Ali Nasser Mohammed and his
clique, in the past period. These deviations aimed at weakening
the public and cooperative sectors, and creating and develo-
ping parasitic sectors. They aimed at striking planned deve-
lopment of the national economy, and caused the waste of
public assets. They also caused the weakening of economic
relations with the socialist countries, and the development of
consumerist trends in our society. The events of January 13th
caused severe economic losses for the country. Losses in buil-
dings and fixed assets, caused by the conspiracy, were about 42
million dinars ($126 million). We have allocated 40 million
dinars ($120 million) for repairing what was destroyed and
continuing social and economic development.
At present, the economic conditions are the central issue in
the struggle of our party. We are concentrating all efforts for
developing these conditions, increasing production, maintai-
ning public ownership and improving labor. We feel satisfied
with our accomplishments so far in resolving the biggest part
of the consequences of the conspiracy. These accomplishments
are due to the inspiration of our masses and their participation
in voluntary work and other initiatives, and to the role of the
construction sector in repairing damage. This gives us confi-
dence in our ability to foil the enemy’s plans for destroying our
revolution via the economic front.
The forces antagonistic to your revolution are still
threatening with external interference. What are
you doing to confront this danger? How are your
relations with neighboring states?
It has been proven that those who planned and executed the
bloody January 13th plot, with its massacres and huge dan-
gers, were counting on external intervention to contain their
defeats and topple the progressive regime in our country. The
heroic steadfastness of our party members and the masses, and
the great internationalist position of the Soviet Union, pre-
vented external intervention. This aborted the hopes of those
enemies who expected to capitalize on this crisis in order to
destroy the Yemeni workers’ and peasants’ state.
In this context, the peaceful policy of our country has played
an important role in preventing external intervention. This
policy guarantees continuing the policies of peaceful coexis-
tence and international solidarity in our foreign policy. We are
determined to continue our relations, especially with fraternal
countries and neighboring states, on the basis of peaceful
coexistence, constructive cooperation, mutual respect for
national sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and
guaranteeing peace and stability in the area,
There were strains in your relations with the
Ethiopian revolution. What is the situation now?
We have close, militant relations, consolidated by blood,
with the Ethiopian revolution, the vanguard Ethiopian Wor-
kers’ Party and Comrade Mengistu Haile Mariam. We are in
the same trench confronting antagonistic conspiracies planned
by the imperialist forces against our two revolutions and coun-
tries. We feel comfortable with our accomplishments in remo-
ving the misunderstandings that arose in Yemeni-Ethiopian
relations, due to the misleading and falsifications of the cons-
pirator Ali Nasser Mohammed. He aimed to isolate Demo-
cratic Yemen from its true friends and cover up his conspira-
torial relations with forces antagonistic to our revolution, as
part of a plan to attack the progressive system in our country.
Day after day, the militant relations between Democratic
Yemen and Ethiopia are being consolidated, based on common
beliefs and goals. We are struggling side by side to accomplish
these goals, guided by the great ideas of scientific socialism and
proletarian internationalism. We are interested in maintaining
and developing this relationship, because we consider it a
source of strength for our just struggle and for both the Arab
and African national liberation movements.
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How do you envision your future role in the Arab
national liberation movement?
In the light of the strong relation between our patriotic,
Arab nationalist and internationalist commitment, we consider
the task of consolidating the unity of the Arab national libera-
tion movement as a primary task to which we should devote
our utmost efforts. Mobilizing and uniting the militant abilities
and will of our Arab people, and their nationalist and progres-
sive forces and regimes, is an important precondition for con-
fronting the enemies’ challenges to the Arab national liberation
movement. These challenges reached a climax in the conspiracy
and outright aggression against the vanguard position of Libya
and Democratic Yemen, and what is now being planned
against steadfast Syria. We are concerned about increasing the
role of our party and country in solidifying the unity of the
Arab struggle against imperialism and Zionism.
We will continue our party’s efforts for reuniting the PLO
and consolidating its militant alliance with Syria and the
Lebanese national movement. We also want to help pave the
way for more joint activity between the Arab progressive
nationalist forces and states in confronting the aggressive and
expansionist policies and plans of imperialism and Zionism,
that aim at striking the achievements of the Arab liberation
movement and reversing the movement of history.
What should Palestinian natidnal unity be based
on?
We support the Palestinian people’s struggle to return to
their homeland, for self-determination and establishing an
independent state under the leadership of the PLO, their sole,
legitimate representative. Reuniting the PLO is an important
task in confronting the attacks of the imperialist and Zionist
forces against the Palestinian cause. We think that the basis for
Palestinian national unity is democratic dialogue and adhe-
rence to the decisions of the 16th PNC, held in Algiers in 1983,
and the decisions of the Fez summit.
Palestinian national unity should confront all plans and
projects that fall short of fulfilling the indelible, legitimate,
national rights of the Palestinian Arab people. We welcomed
the Algerian initiative presented by President Shadli Bin Jedid,
on reuniting the PLO. Our country worked with Algeria in the
past to achieve these noble aims. The most prominent result
was the signing of the Aden-Algiers agreement. We shall con-
tinue efforts with our Algerian brothers to end the state of
division in the Palestinian arena, in order to remobilize the
energies of the Palestinian people and revolutionary fighting
forces to confront the dangers threatening their just cause.
How do you evaluate the relationship between the
YSP and the PFLP?
I would like to stress that the relationship between our party
and the PFLP is a militant, historical one. Our relations were
consolidated over the various stages of the Yemeni and Pales-
tinian revolutions. The PFLP and its secretary general, Com-
rade George Habash, stood by our revolution and party in all
difficult situations. We highly appraise the positions of soli-
darity that the PFLP has taken in support of the struggle of
our party and people to accomplish the tasks of the national
democratic revolution and solidify the socialist orientation of
our country. The PFLP also supported us in confronting all
internal and external conspiracies aimed at striking our pro-
gressive regime and delaying the progressive development of
our revolution.
In the latest bloody conspiracy of January 13th, the PFLP
and our militant comrade George Habash played an important
role in condemning the conspiracy. We shall continue to soli-
dify the historical, militant relations between the YSP and the
PFLP in order to serve the militant alliance between the
Yemeni and Palestinian revolutions, increasing their contribu-
tion to strengthening the struggle of the Arab national libera-
tion movement against imperalism and Zionism. @ - هو جزء من
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