Fisheries Cooperative Union of Fishermen of the South launches its founding conference
SMA NEWS – ADEN the Capital
The Fisheries Cooperative Union for Southern Fishermen launched on Wednesday, in the capital, Aden, the works of its founding conference, which was held under the slogan “Towards a comprehensive vision for the development of fisheries cooperatives in the southern coasts” Gulf of Aden – Arabian Sea – Socotra” under the generous sponsorship of President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, the President of the Transitional Council.
Mr. Fadl Mohammad Al-Jaadi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, delivered a speech at the inauguration ceremony in which he conveyed the greetings of President Aidarous Al-Zubaidi to the attendees, expressing his congratulations on the convening of this founding conference of the Southern Fisheries Cooperative Union, wishing them success in their work.
Al-Jaadi said: “Holding this conference comes while the South is going through great political, economic and military challenges,” noting that the former regime used to destroy the elements of the southern state, including the cooperative movement, labor unions and economic sectors in the south, excluding a large sector of the affiliates of those unions, companies and factories, at the same pace of referring the southern army to forced retirement.
Al-Jaadi concluded his speech by stressing the importance of holding this conference on the path of liberation and restoring the state.
Mr. Omar Qanbeet, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Fisheries Cooperative Union for the Fishermen of the South, spoke in the conference about the suffering and concerns of the fishermen of the South and what they were exposed to during the past periods, explaining the role played by the Preparatory Committee to prepare for this founding conference and the difficulties and challenges it faced during its work.
In his speech, Qanbeet said in an official announcement, through the founding conference of the Fisheries Cooperative Union for the fishermen of the south, declaration of the disengagement from the former Fishermen Cooperative Union, and breaking the relationship with it, after all the persecution and deprivation of the rights of the southern fishermen, and the suffering caused by its policies to the southern citizens in the fish sector.
The first day of the two-day conference included discussion sessions regarding the regulations, laws and principles related to the Southern Fisheries Cooperative Union of the Fishermen of the South, and the mechanisms associated with it, and the excessive rise in fish prices and other issues related to it.
The inauguration ceremony of the founding conference was attended by Mr. Essam Wadi, Director of the Department of Associations, and Unions and Cooperatives in the Office of Social Affairs in the capital, Aden, and Dr. Mohammad Fadl Al-Qutaibi, head of the public department in the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council, in addition to a number of heads of the Secretariat’s departments and a group of media professionals, specialists and those interested in the fishery field.
