Yemeni local and tribal sources told Al-Jazeera Net that there are Saudi-Emirati efforts to thwart the efforts of the local authority and social components in Al-Mahra Governorate (eastern Yemen) to sign a code of honor that spared the province the struggle and chaos.
The sources stated that the signing of the agreement was not completed on the scheduled date of Sunday, with the participation of the political and tribal components in Al-Mahrah; Because of the absence of Al Mahrah Governor Muhammad Ali Yasir, who left for Riyadh at the Saudi invitation.
The sources said that the Saudi invitation to the governor at the same time set to sign the agreement also coincided with threats made by some leaders of the Southern Transitional Council supported by the Emirates, as his skilled representatives refused to engage with the components participating in the agreement, and the leaders of the council pledged to drop the existing institutions in each of the Skilled and Hadramout and Shabwa.
Among the aims of the agreement is to stop the efforts of the Southern Transitional Council to control government institutions in Mahra, as happened in Socotra and the south.
Last Tuesday, the governor of Al-Mahra, Muhammad Ali Yasser, chose the Minister of State, Muhammad Ali Keda, as the head of the preparatory committee for the skilled people in order to prepare for the agreement document, in an attempt to prevent the city from being dragged into the square of violence and confrontation.
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A spokesman for the organizing committee for the sit-in of the skilled people, Salem Belhaf, says that the code of honor is an attempt to bring together the skilled people and the political and tribal components to prevent the recurrence of the scenarios of Aden and Socotra.
Belhaf said that there are attempts being made in Al-Mahrah currently by pushing the transitional to gain popular and tribal cover by buying some loyalties, especially after the "Saudi-Emirati occupation" - as he described it - failed to pass his agenda and win over some of the province's sheikhs who oppose Saudi practices.
Earlier, the Al Afar tribe in Al Mahrah announced the formation of a council for it, and the nomination of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Al Afar as president of the council, replacing Abdullah bin Isa bin Afar, who was accused of standing with Saudi Arabia against the wishes of the skilled people.
This comes in light of intense movements led by Saudi Arabia and the Emirates in the city of Al-Mahra, adjacent to the western borders of the Sultanate of Oman through the payment of military reinforcements from the southern cities (Al-Dhalea, Lahj and Aden), and entering them in the form of payments; As a prelude to implementing a plan to tighten its grip on the city, according to officials in the organizing committee for the sit-in of Mahra children on Al-Jazeera Net.
Saudi Arabia continues to work towards achieving its ambitions to build pipelines through Yemeni skilled lands, up to the Arabian Sea, by deploying its forces in the governorate, and converting many facilities to military barracks, foremost of which is the Al-Ghaydah airport and a shipping and exchange port on the Omani border, which is something that it rejects. Skilled tribes.
These events in Al-Mahrah coincide with the Riyadh-sponsored political movement to bring views closer between the legitimate government and the transitional council - which demands the separation of southern Yemen from its north - in order to implement the faltering Riyadh agreement, which includes forming a government of political efficiencies not exceeding 24 equally divided ministers between the southern governorates And the North.