The Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Ahmed Al-Misri said that the Yemeni presidential and government statements regarding the procedures of the Southern Transitional Council are not enough, considering that Riyadh's silence on what is happening in Socotra and Aden is "collusion."
Al-Missiry added to Al-Jazeera that the guarantor of the Riyadh agreement is Saudi Arabia, and it is responsible for identifying the idle party.
He pointed out that the silence of Riyadh over the Emirati-backed transitional council in Socotra and Aden is collusion, and it must change its position.
He noted that before Ramadan, Saudi Arabia asked President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to postpone the entry of the army into Aden from Shaqra in the Abyan governorate.
Al-Misiri said that President Hadi was unsuccessful when he agreed to delay the army's entry into Aden in response to Saudi Arabia's desire. He also mentioned that the self-management project is an Emirati project with distinction, designed, announced and managed by Abu Dhabi.
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He said that the Emiratis broke the social fabric in Socotra and brought it to a state of fighting, considering that the coalition had bought a group of officers in Socotra with UAE money and seized its military brigade.
He also pointed out that the south fell in the circle of the ambitions of many, and the coalition first, to win a position in the important geography.
The expulsion of gunmen in the
field, local sources said to the island that government forces in the Yemeni province of Socotra were able to expel gunmen belonging to the transitional council - supported by the UAE - from the headquarters of the local authority after storming it and raising the flag of the former "South Yemen" on the main gate of the building.
The sources pointed out that a protest march by the supporters of the Transitional Council came out to condemn the killing of a soldier, who was said to have died when government forces confronted an attempt to storm the city of Hadibu, but they attacked the local authority building and raised the flag of the "South Yemen state" on its façade.
These developments come in Socotra, which is located within the southern governorates, after the transitional council announced on Saturday, April 25th, what it called "self-management for the south" from Aden.
The Yemeni government considers this declaration a second coup against it after last August's coup, and called on the international community and the Arab League to intervene in order to end it.