Hadi: The UAE seeks to divide Yemen and Saudi Arabia must intervene

Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi said the UAE supports the transitional council in southern Yemen in an effort to divide the country, and called on Saudi leaders to intervene to stop the UAE attack on government forces and civilians in Aden and Abyan.

Hadi said in a televised speech about the recent developments after the UAE bombed Yemeni army positions in Aden and Abyan, that the UAE has exploited the current circumstances that Yemen is going through to put these militias against the legitimate state institutions, in order to implement its agenda in the division of Yemen.

The Yemeni president in Riyadh said that "the national army is facing the Houthi militias and the armed rebellion targeting the constitutional legitimacy and the Yemeni identity, which was carried out by the militias of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, which self-proclaimed injustice and aggression and armed force as a representative of the Yemeni people in the southern governorates. The most heinous crimes against unarmed citizens using the UAE military arsenal in pursuit of the goals and objectives of the financiers. "

He added that the UAE raids on Aden and Abyan claimed the lives of dozens of dead and wounded, as well as the raids by the militias and arrests and executions of the wounded in some hospitals, pointing out that "government forces withdrew from Aden to the periphery of the city to spare civilians the mad destruction by the Council militias Transition backed by UAE air cover. "

Hadi asserted that "the planes of the targeted terrorists will not intimidate us and will restore Aden and extend the influence of the state." He said, "The government directed all its institutions to take all necessary measures at various levels to face this blatant targeting against our country and the integrity and territorial integrity of our country."

The Yemeni president called on the Saudi leaders to intervene to stop this blatant attack and stop the UAE's support for these militias and the use of aerial bombardment against the Yemeni armed forces.He said that the intervention of the brothers in our battle against the Iranian Houthi project could not be a gateway to the division of our country.