Mohammed Abdul Malik - Al Jazeera Net

It was not long after the signing of the Riyadh Agreement yesterday between the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council, until talk began to "minimize" the body of the agreement by Saudi Arabia and the UAE by calling for the return of the legitimate government to exercise its functions in Aden and the transitional retreat from calls for secession.

This was evident in a statement by Mansour Saleh, deputy head of the Transitional Media Department, to Saudi and Emirati media following the signing, stressing that the government could not return to Aden.

Saleh said that the prime minister alone may return to hand over the salaries of employees, while the agreement explicitly stipulates that the prime minister and members of the current government to start their duties in Aden within a week of signing the agreement.

Observers believe that what confirms the efforts of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to impose "hidden desires" through this agreement is their efforts to remove all Yemeni officials in support of legitimacy and opponents of their role in Yemen, led by the Minister of Transport Saleh al-Jubani and Interior Minister Ahmed al-Maisari and the Governors of Socotra and Shabwa.

Al-Rabadas Agreement transfers Hadi's powers to Saudi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Jaber

- Ahmed Alzarqa (@AhmadALzurqa) 5 November 2019

In his first comment, Jabwani said that the Riyadh agreement gave the Saudi-UAE alliance full legitimacy to administer Yemen, and that the drafted clauses were merely details of what would happen on the ground of the consequences of the Riyadh and Abu Dhabi administration for Yemen and their behavior in the liberated provinces.

According to al-Jibwani, the "legitimacy alliance" has become legitimacy, and the legitimate government itself has become a party like the Southern Transitional Council, which will make the future of the government in the hands of the ministers who will be chosen to manage the next stage.

Popular will
With regard to the Transitional Council's insistence on the option of secession after this agreement, his spokesman Nizar Haitham said that their goals and principles were clear from the beginning and derived from popular will.

Haytham told Al Jazeera Net that there is an understanding locally, Arab and international importance of the presence of the southern transition as a legitimate representative to resolve the issue of the people of the South, within the framework of a comprehensive political settlement and support for the peace process.

He said that the terms of the agreement are clear, and that everyone has become committed to what has been signed, and required everyone to cooperate to serve the citizens in the south and to address the previous problems.

In the context, confirms a government official of the island Net that the items that talk about the return of the government and the details of the reorganization of military forces in the south and the withdrawal of weapons and their commitment to limited days will be impossible to apply.

The official adds in a telephone conversation with Al Jazeera Net that "Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates wanted through this agreement to consume the rest of the legitimacy to weaken and rob the troops and the removal of its men, and then devoted to tearing the country and the sharing of influence."

Justifications for failure
The political analysts talked to Al Jazeera Net this agreement is an attempt to repair the state of collapse in the mission of the coalition, which appeared in contrast to the objectives of military intervention in Yemen five years ago.

According to them, any future role of the coalition can no longer be trusted against the backdrop of its black past in Yemen, especially after the Yemenis are now watching Saudi Arabia in excess of legitimacy, which waited for victory from the mirage and all its hopes were suspended by a straw and when it did not find him hurried behind such an agreement.

What has been signed in Riyadh is a third Saudi trap in recent years. From the Gulf Initiative to Peace and Partnership to the Riyadh Agreement, the dangerous thing is that the contents of the agreement put the state, the military decision and the political decision formally under Saudi tutelage.

- Mohammed Al Muqbali (@moqbeli_al) 5 November 2019

Political analyst and researcher in international relations Adel al-Masni said it is pointless to focus on the terms of the agreement for many reasons, including the lack of desire of local or regional players to resolve.

He adds that legitimacy does not seem to satisfy in partnership with those who rebel against it, as well as the Transitional Council, which represents an external party (the UAE) can not surrender arms and accept the dissolution within the framework of legitimacy overturned and declared not to recognize it, and thus will not be able to restore the decision and management of resources Even if she is allowed to return.

Al-Masni believes that Saudi Arabia has woken up to such a situation unconsciously or that it has been deceived, but what is certain is that it sought with the UAE to break the back of legitimacy and left the latter lurking legitimacy, which also failed to impose its independence through military decisiveness.

He concluded that the will to go towards a serious solution seemed to be lacking on all sides, which would be the greatest challenge and could explode in the face of everyone at the first test in the field.

Booby-trapped agreement
For his part, Yemeni political analyst Abdul Ghani Maori that the most prominent trap this agreement those items relating to the powers of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi political and military.

In the first version of the Riyadh Agreement there was a clause:
"Unite efforts to end the coup of Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militias"

In its latest version, it was changed to "unite efforts to restore security and stability in Yemen and combat terrorist organizations".

This means what?

- Mohammed Alrabea (@malrubaa) 6 November 2019

Maori pointed out that the president appoints governors, ministers and security officials after consultation, which raises two important questions. First, is the consultation binding or not and, if not, why is it enshrined?

The second question concerns who should be consulted. In other words, should Hadi, in his appointment, consult with the Southern Transitional Movement or with Saudi Arabia and the UAE?

According to Maori, the most prominent trap relates to what the UAE has in particular, as it is difficult to accept the idea of ​​its exit from Yemen without any benefits, especially since the rulers of Abu Dhabi have a kind of faith, with the aim of smashing Yemen and placing its customers at the highest ranks there. This agreement also gives it the right to carry out all its hostilities in Yemen, taking advantage of Saudi Arabia's lead in the scene.