Amendments to the Riyadh Agreement on Yemen .. Do you prepare the ground for the secession of the south or for the return of legitimacy?

And episode (7/29/2020) of "Beyond the News" asked: To what extent did the Saudi amendments to the Riyadh agreement meet the demands of the two parties? What are the opportunities to be applied on the ground? What are the chances that the revised agreement will survive and the effects it can have on the course of the Yemeni crisis?

The details of the amendments announced by the Kingdom to be submitted to the Riyadh agreement came at night and through the Saudi Press Agency, to two parties: the Yemeni government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council.

The amendments included forming a mechanism to accelerate the implementation of the Riyadh agreement, which included, in addition to the continued ceasefire between the two sides, entrusting the Prime Minister of Yemen, Mouin Abdel Malek, to take over the formation of a government of political competencies within 30 days, whose members are chosen equally between the North and the South, including the ministers nominated by the Transitional Council .

The mechanism also includes the announcement of the transitional council to abandon self-administration in the south, the appointment of a governor and a security director for the governorate of Aden. It also includes the exit of military forces from Aden governorate, the separation of forces of the two parties in Abyan and their return to their previous positions.

Steps that are met on the ground by protests expressed by elders and notables from the governorate of Abyan (southern Yemen), in a meeting in the coastal city of Shaqra, during which they imposed what they called the transitional council's attempts to monopolize the representation of southern governorates by using force of arms, and they called on Saudi Arabia to express a positive attitude towards what they described as the complications that contributed In finding it in Yemen, they are skeptical about the usefulness of the treatments currently being proposed, a position shared by leaders from Al-Mahra Governorate (southern Yemen).

Anis Mansour stressed that the agreement establishes a coming conflict worse than before, because it turned the coupists into legitimate owners, as well as withdrawing the rug from the owners of true legitimacy, as he described it.

While Mansour said that the agreement neglected several points, including the return of the presidential protection brigades to its barracks, he pointed to what he considered the failure of the secession fool that the Southern Transitional Council was calling for.

On the other hand, Yemeni writer and political researcher Ali Noman Al-Masfari said that the transitional council managed to preserve the entire southern issue through this agreement, stressing that this issue has become like a guiding egg in the upcoming political equations after it gained political legitimacy.

Al-Masfari added that all the southern factions are unanimous in independence, and the Saudi-Emirati alliance will participate in accomplishing its mission, and cut the hand of the Iranian-Turkish project inside Yemen, he said.

For his part, writer and political analyst Omar Ayasrah said that the new Riyadh agreement serves the Southern Transitional Council, noting that the first version of the Riyadh agreement came to provide political cover for the coup carried out by the Transitional Council in Aden, and gave it legitimacy that might lead to the independence of the south later.