A Yemeni government source told Al-Jazeera that the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council and the government agreed in Riyadh to distribute ministerial portfolios between the council, the government and the rest of the other components. Aidaroos Al-Zubeidi.
The government source added that the agreement to distribute the bags does not mean announcing the government, as there are still pending issues, most notably the security and military part of the Riyadh Agreement, and the government source indicated that the Southern Transitional Council's promises to implement this aspect were not fulfilled.
The Riyadh Agreement - signed between the Yemeni government and the UAE-backed Transitional Council in November of last year - is stalled in its implementation, and the implementation of new terms of understandings to speed up the implementation of the agreement has stopped about two and a half months ago.
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The Undersecretary of the Yemeni Ministry of Information, Muhammad Qizan, said in a tweet on Twitter that President Hadi met in Riyadh, Aidaroos Al-Zubaidi, and the Yemeni official did not clarify the details of what happened in the meeting.
"We hope that the transitional will respond to calls keen to avoid fighting between brothers, implement the Riyadh agreement and form the government, so that it will return to Aden and exercise its executive duties in serving the people and supporting the army to defeat the Houthi coup," Gizan added.
Acceleration mechanism
At the end of last July, the Saudi-led coalition announced a mechanism to accelerate the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, and the mechanism included the transitional abandonment of the Autonomous Administration in the southern governorates, and the formation of a government of equal competencies between the south and the north.
The mechanism also included the continuation of the ceasefire between the legitimate government and the Council, the departure of the military forces from Aden, the separation of the forces of the two parties in Abyan governorate, and their return to their previous positions.
It is noteworthy that the Riyadh agreement was signed 3 months after the outbreak of confrontations between the legitimate government forces and the transitional council forces, which led to the latter taking control of the interim capital Aden and other southern regions, which prompted Saudi Arabia to sponsor a reconciliation agreement between the two sides, which included political, economic and military arrangements.