http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Vice President opens local authority conference in Mahara [The Source: /www.almotamar.net - 10/06/2009] Vice-President of the republic of Yemen Abid Rabu Mansour Hadi on Wednesday inaugurated meetings of the local authority conference in Mahara governorate. The two-day conference discusses the national strategy for the local rule , the national programme for implementing it ad the general report of the governorate in addition to working papers on development and issues and topics related to local affairs. It discusses activation of the local councils role in the process of development. At the beginning o f the conference meeting the governor of Mahara Ali Mohammed Khoudam welcomed the Vice-President for attending opening of the conference for the local authority. The governor pointed out that the conference represents an opportunity for discussing all what concerns the governorate of issues of services, economic, social and cultural aspects of development. Governor Khoudam affirmed that the ambitions and expectations are big especially that the Yemeni people have realized great national gains since the reunification of the country under leadership of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The governor maintained that the Yemeni unity represents a crown on heads of all the Yemenis all over the country and the people would defend its gains. On his part, the secretary general of the governorate’s local council Salem Abdullah Neimar reviewed the strategic vision of the local rule system and features of the national programme for carrying it out. The meeting also discussed many of issues and set up working teams to discuss the working papers and different reports presented to the conference.