http://www.english.hadhramaut.info President Saleh receives phone call from Somali counterpart [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 18/12/2008] President Ali Abdullah Saleh received on Wednesday a phone call from his Somali counterpart Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed who briefed him on the latest developments in Somalia. The conversation included also issues related to the piracy acts run by some Somali pirates off the Somali coasts and in the Gulf of Aden and the Arab Sea in addition to the anti-piracy efforts of Yemen and Somalia. President Saleh reiterated Yemen's stand to secure security and stability and peace in Somalia and reactivate the role of the Somali official institutions. Saleh also renewed a call to the Arab countries and the international community to shoulder their responsibilities towards what is happening in Somalia and to help the Somali people to rebuild what have been destroyed by war and conflicts. President Saleh affirmed that the exacerbated situation in Somalia will lead to further insecurity and make Somalia a core of more problems related to the current acts of piracy which threat the safety of the international navigation and global trade and create the acts of terrorism in the region. For his part, the Somali President expressed appreciation for Yemen's efforts in support of security and stability in his country and receiving thousands of Somali refuges fleeing the conflicts the wars in Somalia.