Yemen .. an official request to internationalize the crisis and demonstrations to expel the UAE from the coalition

The Yemeni government has demanded the Security Council to hold a special session to discuss what it described as UAE aggressions and interference in Yemen. It also demanded the expulsion of the UAE from the Saudi-led coalition amid demonstrations condemning the UAE attacks on Aden and Abyan.

In a letter to Yemen's permanent representative to the United Nations, the government held the UAE fully responsible for what it called an armed insurgency in the south of the country.

The Yemeni delegate pointed out that his country reserves its full right to defend itself against the UAE attacks and the militias loyal to it.

The Yemeni delegate also called on Saudi Arabia to exercise its role as a coalition leader, to stop the recent military escalation against legitimacy.

Expulsion of the UAE
The Yemeni government had earlier called on President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to send a letter to Saudi Arabia demanding an end to the UAE's participation in the Saudi-Emirati alliance, stressing the retention of Yemen's right to sue the UAE against the backdrop of those raids.

This comes as the streets of Taiz roamed popular marches rejecting the UAE presence in Yemen. The government demanded the expulsion of the UAE from the Saudi-led coalition.

Local sources said that demonstrators marched after Friday prayers marched through the streets, and chanted slogans calling for the departure of UAE forces from Yemen.

Participants condemned all the actions of the UAE in Yemen, including the airstrikes launched by the United Arab Emirates on Thursday on government forces in the provinces of Aden and Abyan, which claimed the lives of hundreds of dead and wounded.

Demonstrators called on the Yemeni government to quickly take a stand to end the UAE's role in the coalition, because of what they called the deviation of the UAE role from the coalition's stated objectives for which he entered Yemen.

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi accused the UAE on Thursday of executing wounded people in hospitals.

Hadi, who is based in Riyadh, said the UAE-backed Transitional Council militias carried out executions in a number of wounded in several hospitals in the province of Abyan.