With the approach of the signing of the Jeddah Agreement .. Saudi forces begin deployment in Aden

Al Jazeera Net - Special

Yemeni sources told Al-Jazeera Net that the Saudi forces that arrived recently in the interim capital Aden in the south of the country began to deploy on the ground and stationed in a number of key government facilities and headquarters, including the presidential palace.

According to the sources, tanks and soldiers numbering dozens were deployed around the presidential palace to secure it, days after the withdrawal of UAE forces from the city, and the coalition announced what he called the repositioning of its forces to be led by Saudi Arabia.

Witnesses confirmed to Al Jazeera Net that they saw additional Saudi troops early Tuesday at dawn on their way to the coalition camp in the Brega area, to strengthen the forces that had previously arrived in order to prepare for the return of the Yemeni government to the city of Aden, according to the Jeddah agreement between the legitimate government and the Transitional Council supported by the UAE.

In the same vein, Anatolia quoted a Yemeni source in the consultation team of the legitimate government as saying that the date of signing the Jeddah agreement between the government and the Southern Transitional Council will be next Thursday in Riyadh with the participation of Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the supervision of Saudi Arabia.

The Yemeni president held talks with his advisers, senior statesmen and party leaders and discussed with them the draft of the Riyadh agreement, adding that the draft agreement is in addition to what he described as Saudi Arabia's efforts to heal the rift and end the insurgency in the city of Aden and the southern governorates.

In a separate context, Yemeni sources reported that the UAE forces handed over the island of Zagreb in the Red Sea to the joint forces led by Tariq Saleh on the west coast.

According to the spokesman of the joint forces Waddah Aldbish, the UAE handed over the island, which contains military sites and away from the coast of Yemen about 35 km.

It is noteworthy that the UAE had trained more than 1500 soldiers of the joint forces in this island - including sailors and divers - and provided them with gunboats.