[18/10/2017 08:13]

RIYADH-SABA
Deputy Premier AbdulazizJubari said "Taiz is yearning for security, stability and for a federal state based on justice, equality, good governance and fair sharing of power and wealth."

Jubari was answering a follow-up phone call by President Abdu Rabbu M. Hadi upon wrapping up a several-day mission he headed in the city to oversee a series of measures to restore the state authority and re-normalize life.

Jubari said, "Taiz is worth restoring the smile for, after it offered many martyrs and wounded people in countering the rebels' theologian agenda."

Hadi discussed with him the efforts his mission exerted to re-normalize life in the city. The mission oversaw the re-opening of the Central Bank's branch office, resuming the payment of salaries to public servicemen after months of non-payment, the re-issuance of passports and other basic state functions in the city.

The Saleh-Houthi rebel militias have been pushed out of the city to its peripheries but the impact of their war is still lingering and, from their outposts in the city's circumference, they are still laying a siege barring the movement of people, goods and humanitarian aid to and from the city.

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