Yemeni Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Hadrami accused the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of blocking the implementation of security and military arrangements for the Riyadh agreement between the government and the council, signed last November.
For his part, Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh al-Jabwani, said that none of the provisions of the Riyadh Agreement had been implemented, except for the return of the Prime Minister, which he described as formal.
In an interview with Al Jazeera on the "Without Borders" program, al-Jabwani said that the Southern Transitional Council controlled Aden.
Al-Jabwani added that legitimacy was under severe pressure for four years, and he accused the UAE and Saudi Arabia of weakening it.
Al-Jabwani said, "Legitimacy dealt in good faith towards what is happening in the south, but the UAE was working to turn militias in the south into a tool to break up Yemen," he said.
He explained that legitimacy was in front of two options: accepting the fait accompli or entering into an armed confrontation that would affect the confrontation of the coup in Sana'a, he said.
The Yemeni government signed an agreement with the Southern Transitional Council in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on November 5, 2019, which was supposed to end the southern transitional council rebellion in the temporary capital, Aden (southwestern Yemen).
The agreement stipulated the formation of a government of talent not exceeding 24 ministers, with ministerial portfolios being divided equally between the southern and northern governorates.