President Hadi addresses nation over October revolution, Eid al-Adha

President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi delivered on Sunday a speech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 14 October revolution and the Eid al-Adha. President Hadi said that the Yemeni unity can keep spark of the twin revolutions of September 1962 and October 1963 which erupted against two regimes rejected by the Yemeni people. “If the Yemeni revolution has resulted in elimination of tyranny, oppression and colonialism and achieved one of the most important goals of the revolution via the unification of Yemen, which has been for long decades a dream,” Hadi addressed the nation. “This unification established the path towards pluralism and democracy, therefore, the demands for change came to restore awareness of the nation on the principles of the national values objectives,” he added. The President went on to say that full compliance with the GCC-brokered initiative was the only path to honoring aspirations of Yemeni people. "Completing the implementation of the Gulf initiative is the only path to honoring hopes and aspirations of the Yemeni people," Hadi said. He underlined he would now allow obstruction of the march of change and reform, or the completion of the GCC initiative and its executive mechanism. He accused those who tried to obstruct change of having "bad intention towards the country and want to drag the country to civil war." “The most important lessons that we can draw from the Yemeni revolution are any regime based on a tribe or a region or any foreign occupation cannot be continued”. Hadi also said in his speech that “we will not allow anything to halt the progress of change and reforms”. “Who is working on hindering the GCC initiative he holds bad intentions towards the nation and he wants to go back to the first square”. He pointed out that the history will not forgive all those who influence their personal, partisan, tribal or family interests against the major interests of the country. “We are determined to bring the country to safety, stability and development, and certainly we realize that is not easy before the future tasks which come in the forefront of implementation of the outcomes of the national dialogue conference on the ground and drafting of a new constitution based on these outputs.. we have no option but to shape the prosperous future of Yemen,” he added. “We look forward on everyone, especially all political parties, to cooperate in order to reach to the outcomes of the NDC which will reflect the national conscience and reaffirm the political commitment on the country’s supreme interests,” Hadi noted in his speech.