Yemeni officials have warned of a "plan" to topple Yemeni provinces with the hands of the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council, and against the increasing influence of both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are "sharing control" over the country.
The Yemeni Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information, Muhammad Qizan, warned of a "plan" to bring down the Yemeni Hadramaut Governorate in the hands of the Southern Transitional, noting that the plan to overthrow it is in full swing.
Qizan called - in a tweet on his official account on Twitter - today, the Yemeni government to return to Yemen to exercise its tasks, which he considered "a national necessity in order to face the transitional schemes supported by the UAE."
He added, "The government's return to Hadhramaut, its stability, and the exercise of all its executive tasks is a national necessity. The plan to hand Hadhramaut from the" transitional militia "is in full swing and will not be long, and its time will not benefit the statements of condemnation, protests and reassurance through the media."
The government return to # Hadramout and stability out and exercise all the executive functions of a national necessity, Fmkhtt delivery of Hadramout's # Mlisheat_alantqala is going on in full swing and will not go on too much,
and time of statements of condemnation and protests will not benefit and the scar through the media,
go back to Otunkm liberated your decision and Ihtermkm brother and friend
- Dr. Muhammad Qizan (@mohgezan) June 21, 2020
The adviser to the Yemeni Minister of Information, Mukhtar Al-Rahbi, announced, in tweets on Twitter, that the Saudi-Emirati alliance is "sharing Yemen ... Saudi Arabia has gone and took control of Al-Mahrah and Socotra, while the UAE has gone to Hadramout, Aden and the (western) coast."
Al-Rahbi added that "all airports, ports, and strategic areas have been managed by them (the coalition) in a blatant interference in the national sovereignty that no free Yemeni will accept."
He continued, "The coalition entered Yemen to restore legitimacy, not a substitute for it."
He pointed out that "the Aden coup was carried out and led in Abu Dhabi, and the Socotra coup was carried out in Riyadh."
The Emirati-backed transitional council has been in control in Aden since August 2019, after fierce fighting with government forces that ended with the expulsion of the government that accused the UAE of plotting a second coup after the Houthi coup, which Abu Dhabi denies.
While the transitional gunmen managed - yesterday, Friday - to take control of the headquarters of the local authority in Socotra after the withdrawal of the government forces, hours after they took control of the Socotra Security Directorate building located in Hadibu, the center of the governorate, in which Saudi forces are present.
The Yemeni government said yesterday that "the Transitional Council militia carried out a full-fledged coup in Socotra governorate, which undermined state institutions in the governorate."
The conflict escalated in Socotra - which is one of the southern governorates - following the announcement by the Southern Transitional Council on April 26 last year of a state of public emergency, and the inauguration of what he called "self-management of the south", amid Arab and international rejection.
Socotra is the largest of the archipelago of the same name, consisting of 6 islands, and occupies a strategic location in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa, near the Gulf of Aden.