Baath congress wants active and transparent leadership

Members of al-Baath 10th Congress said Tuesday "delicate criteria should be adopted in choosing the party leadership," asserting importance of transparency, frankness and constructive criticism as well as combating corruption and inaction.

During the Organizing Committee's meetings, members concentrated on the "need for bases and decisions that enable the Party to perform its national role and to build for a new stage of interaction between the party and the people." Interpositions called for invigorating the mechanism of the party meetings, developing the popular action and investing the citizens' capacities.

They also underlined the cultural issues, calling for holding social, cultural and economic activities to create a state of interaction between the party leadership and the people.

In their interpositions, members of the Economic Committee underscored the importance of improving the health sector, developing the medicine industry in the general sector, supporting the general sector since it represents the backbone of the national economy and achieving balance between salaries and living standard.

Participants also pointed out to the importance of making use of other states' expertise that have high rates of economic growth, stressing the need for facing desertification, developing the field of agriculture as well as attracting and facilitating Arab investments.