Arab countries must help Yemen militarily to face the extremists who today threaten the stability of Yemen and tomorrow will threaten the stability of the rest of these states should they restrain from helping Yemen getting rid from the grip of those militants, who want to convert Yemen into a terrorist Emirate governed by their head and subjecting the people to their will as the case was during deposed Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The economic situation in Yemen has worsened in an incredible way during this period because of the Yemeni revolution that started against the former Yemeni President. Many businesses have closed disturbing the Yemeni economic activity and causing its severe deterioration and pushing the country into reaching the poverty line. In addition, other problems are affecting Yemen, especially the rise of terrorist operations that have significantly worsened the situation. They aggravated the situation by stirring panic among the citizens, and having a bad impact on the economy. Many shops and factories have closed and losing contracts, whether internally or externally. The Yemeni market needs lots of effort to recover which will strengthen the national economy. The government must work to develop projects that will increase the savings of the country and the citizen who is affected by the poor conditions prevailing now in Yemen.

Yemen will never stand on its feet again and providing the needs of its people without solving the problem of instability that resulted from the current security and political challenges. The plans of Yemen must include conducting a national dialogue that includes all the Yemenis in order to reach unanimity regarding the constitutional reforms and the elections. We also wished to see progress as to the transitional justice law, which aims at facilitating the national reconciliation. It is necessary to achieve these reforms according to the agreed schedule as part of the GCC Initiative.

The difficult economic situation is the fundamental reason behind the outbreak and the continuing political and security challenges in Yemen. Firstly, there is the problem of unemployment among young people, as well as the prevalence of poverty in the country. The Yemeni economy also suffers from the problem of high inflation on the one hand and high indebtedness on the other hand. Add to this the failure of the Yemeni economy to achieve positive results in many international indicators, which adversely affects the country's reputation and prestige. In detail, the Yemeni bilateral economy suffers from unemployment and poverty, but this duality is a threat to the living situation where you find groups of stragglers, which include the young unemployed and relatively poor grasping at an opportunity to achieve their goals, leading terrorist movements to recruit them. There is also the continuing rise in the general price level or, in other words, the continued decline in the value of money.

Confrontation of Al-Qaeda in Yemen is not the responsibility of this country with its deteriorating economy and difficult situation. This is the responsibility of the Gulf neighboring states in the first place, because the security problems that affected these states will take place again with Al-Qaeda if it had a chance to extend its activities and collaborate with those who work hard to impose siege on the Arab Gulf States through shaking their security. Iran does not even hide this wish after it prepared Iraq to be a base for support and Yemen as a base for war through the support offered to both the Houthi rebels and Al-Qaeda. Of course, we cannot overlook this thereat.

The security conditions in Yemen and its deteriorating security circumstances have severely affected the economic infrastructure. Hence, the stable and developed states must help the Yemeni economy through offering investments to improve the infrastructure. There must be economic support on part of the developing states to form a bridge for communication and exchange of benefits and interests. We have to support the will of the peoples in the region and worldwide to help these countries to be bridges for the communication and exchange of the mutual benefits to all people for the sake of freedom, unity, and comprehensive development. Hence, we should support the Yemeni economy and develop the investment environment, because this is a duty on the rich Arab states. These states should help the Yemeni economy and investment sector in order to achieve the balanced development and mutual interests. This is the only way to peace and stability as well as the human determination and happiness of the peoples, tolerance, and good relationships. Hence, there should be official efforts to prepare the Yemeni islands as fields for investment in all economic, production, and service sectors. There also should be social, environmental, educational, and cultural development to raise the investment in Yemen.

Yemen is one of the powerful countries, but what makes her stand still like that and without progress to do something important and powerful is because the funding and administration there all need large financing and greater support from the Arabs or the European governments, so that Yemen and the Yemeni people could get out of the difficult situation which they are experiencing. And I call upon Allah, the Highest and the Greatest, to rid Yemen and the Yemeni people of the great worry that they are experiencing, and I want to say that the duty of the Arab countries is to help Yemen with all that they have to get back what it was in the past and even better, so that Yemen would be among the countries that can do something in order to preserve the lives of her citizens.

Al-Qaeda has exploited Yemen in that issue because they know that Yemen is a poor country, which no one has funded with money and moral support in order to become one of those powerful states, and al-Qaeda is the weakest creature on earth because it is looking for everything that is cheap and easy and the power that it used to have started to end because its financial situation worsened greatly and they must think of something new, which no one but Allah knows what it is. Allah willing, the situation will be different everywhere and Yemen will remain one of the best Arab countries and the nicest among them, and it would be so if there was large and strong support from the Arab states that have to stand by Yemen and support her through all that they can afford. Allah willing, safety, security and stability will be restored to Yemen because it is one of the most deserving Arab countries for her really heroic positions. And the most important thing is the insistence of the Yemenis as they want Yemen to be one of the best and the nicest Arab states, Allah the Almighty willing; she will be so, Allah willing.

There are many problems that the Yemeni citizens suffer from, and they need a quick solution to them, such as education. Most of Yemeni society suffers from ignorance and illiteracy. This makes the Yemeni people unable to develop their nation. Even the student who is still studying cannot understand the subjects or the syllables. Education is the foundation of developing the economy, because through education you can bring up a creative and thoughtful generation that can find solutions at any time. The government has to realize the new developmental conditions that they have to offer to the Yemeni citizens, who suffer from many things. As for the problem of the Yemeni justice system, which almost does not exist except against the simple people, it makes Yemen lag thousands of light years behind progress. The time of Saleh was very long, and it ruined complete systems. He was living while the rest of the people were being killed. The government has to have multiple purposes and thoughts to be able to build their country. But sadly, the ruling party is controlling everything. They want to control all the Yemeni people by force. There are some steps that have to be taken by the Yemeni government in order to improve the economic conditions, to improve the national security, provide the necessary needs for the citizens, and to continue growth. This means we need a plan that will establish the difficult balance between the three elements of defense, consumption and investment. We have to be careful not to picture the economic development as economic independence, industrialization or keeping the old assets. The plan for economic development is basically defined by reaching a number of modernization goals, i.e. necessities, such as increasing production, establishing a degree of economic and social equality, establishing the modern knowledge and developing the service and production institutions. It is common to read the plan of the economy based on some secondary purposes, such as the number of citizens under the poverty line, the minimum limit of consumption, the maximum limit of unemployment, the distribution of incomes and the shapes of consumption and diversity in the national economy. The policies of the plan have to produce and keep high rates of growth without high rates of inflation. These policies have to create an accurate balance between merging with the world economy and the risks of this openness for the potentials of the national industry.

The United States and Western countries have lent a helping hand to Yemen to mitigate the severity of poverty and unemployment that exist in that nation. These issues are key factors that contribute to the recruitment of new people to carry out violent operations for al-Qaeda. Therefore, the neighboring countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Oman, as well as Western countries that have interests in the region and are the dominant players in this part of the world should strive to alleviate the burdens on the new Yemeni government. These parties should help and support the Yemeni people and their government financially and otherwise, and should provide assistance necessary for building the infrastructure. They should also provide Yemen with expertise so that Yemeni government may make advancement and be able to create job opportunities for its people. Subject to receiving such help, the Yemeni government can assume its responsibilities away from sectarianism and tribalism. Yemenis can then have a sense of productiveness and will then relinquish terrorist organizations, tribalism and sectarianism. These are true messages from the poor Yemeni people to Arab countries, particularly the wealthy and affluent Gulf States. Their message is to help and support their helpless nation.