Al-Yamani added, during his statements for an episode (18/6/2020) from the "Beyond the News" program, that what happens today in the vicinity of the siege of the Yemeni capital of the Yemeni archipelago, Socotra, is just "receiving and delivering" between the Saudi forces present on the island's territory and the UAE-backed militias .
He added that this process is an attempt to complete what Abu Dhabi failed in the Abyan governorate, and that the main objective of it is to put more pressure on the legitimate government to accept new agreements without any progress and practical application of the Riyadh agreement.
For his part, former State Department official Nabil Khoury confirmed that the fighting in Socotra is very harmful to the classified island as a natural reserve and its "sensitive" historical environment, and that there is no need for any military forces on its soil, considering that the Saudi position has several contradictions, because the Kingdom's practices on the ground In Yemen, its declarations and stated goals do not reflect, as it does not really support legitimacy and its forces, nor does it have a real desire to enable it to control the south, adding that Riyadh only wants legitimacy to resist the Houthis in the north.
On the other hand, the writer and political analyst Asad Bishara said that what is being promoted regarding the Saudi-Emirati "identification" in Yemen is due to the conspiracy theory that the "orientalists" resort to escape reality and reality, and denied the existence of any exchange of roles between the Kingdom and the UAE, while Saudi Arabia sponsored the Riyadh agreement It rejected what is going on in Aden, in addition to the clear difference between the two countries regarding the southern situation in Yemen, and that what is happening now is to try to bounce the conflicting parties in Saudi Arabia aiming to reach agreements after the failure to implement the Riyadh agreement.