2023-05-09 18:55:13
Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) on Monday renewed its efforts for the partition of the war-torn country, following a four-day consultative meeting. Which meeting would have, according to Emirati observers, laid the foundations for the creation of a new country in the south of the country which would bear the name of “South Arabia”.
The South Yemen Transitional Council (STC) met this Monday, May 9 in Aden and the participating political factions signed a “national charter”, the most notable clause of which includes “the restoration of the Southern State with its political and geographical borders as they were before May 22, 1990in reference to the unification of the former states of North Yemen and South Yemen.
Any solution that does not take into account the “full sovereignty” of the south must be decided by the population of the region, specifies the charter.
It also provides for the adoption of a federal state in southern Yemen.
Participants in the meeting insisted on the need for an “international resolution” to act on the separation of southern Yemen from the Yemeni state, reports The New Arab.
According to the same source, the meeting saw the creation of what looks like a government of the new state, at its head, the president of the CTS, Aïdarous al-Zoubaïdi. Major Generals Abdulrahman Al-Muhrammi, Faraj Al-Bahsani and Ahmed Saeed bin Break were named vice presidents, and 23 other people were appointed to the presidential council.
Other factions in southern Yemen have expressed their opposition to the meeting and the national charter that has been announced.
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) is a political organization in Yemen that was established in May 2017, during the ongoing Yemeni civil war. It is also known as the Transitional Council of the Arab South (STSA) or the Transitional Council of Southern Yemen.
The STC is made up of separatist groups from southern Yemen, which seized control of the port city of Aden in August 2019 following driving out Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. Since then, the STC has governed Aden and other parts of southern Yemen, acting as the de facto separatist administration in the region.
Fruit of the reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the support of the Emirates
The historic agreement reached in March between Saudi Arabia and Iran under the auspices of China raised hopes that repercussions might also be felt in Yemen, which has been a flashpoint throughout bitter rivalry between the two countries.
The STC has sought to cease its activities in northern Yemen, which is mainly under the control of Houthi rebels, who are in turn engaged in negotiations with Saudi Arabia to end the Yemeni conflict.
Voices close to MBZ, President of the UAE were the first to applaud this “historic agreement” for the division of Yemen. These are the same voices that circulate the new name of this new country: South Arabia.
The war in Yemen has killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions and damaged the country’s economy. Millions of people depend on humanitarian aid, in a country already considered one of the poorest in the world.
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