The Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council holds its periodic meeting headed by Al-Khobaji
SMA NEWS – Aden the capital
The Presidency of the Southern Transition held its periodic meeting on Saturday, headed by Dr. Nasser Thabet Al-Khobaji, Acting President of the Council, Head of the Negotiations Affairs Unit.
The Presidency renewed its congratulations to our great southern people on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan, and highly valued in the context the important speech delivered by President Aidaroos Qasim Al-Zubaidi, the President of the Transitional Council, to our people at home and abroad on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan, which reflected many consistent positions of the Transitional Council towards the suffering of our people as a result of the comprehensive war that the south is exposed to in various fields, stressing that all plans will fail just as their predecessors failed in the face of the legendary steadfastness of our people and their precious sacrifices in order to obtain their full rights.
In the meeting, which was attended by the ministers in the government of parity, and the security directors of the capital, Aden and Lahj, and leaders of backup and support brigades, and the security belt, AL-ASIFA ” Storm” forces, and special security forces, the Presidency strongly condemned the cowardly methods and practices, and the acts of murder, warfare and kidnapping practiced by the forces of extremism and terrorism against the people of the South, which the most recent of which was the kidnapping of the young man, Abdel Moneim Sheikh, the brother of Abd al-Rahman Sheikh, the member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, by the so-called Amjad Khaled, one of the symbols of terrorism and the killing and terrorist bombings that Aden witnessed over the past period.
The Presidency affirmed the Council’s insistence on bringing the so-called Amjad Khaled to justice in order to obtain his punshiment for the terrorist acts in which he was directly involved during the past period.
The Presidency warned of the consequences of the continued kidnapping of the young man, Abdel Moneim Sheikh, and called for his immediate release, without any conditions, and for the perpetrators of this process to be brought to legal accountability.
The Presidency reiterated that the main stake on which the South, the Transitional Council and the living civilian forces depend is on the people of the South and their free will to resist all kinds of oppression, tyranny, abolition and siege, that try forcing them to abandon their cause, which achieved a growing popular turn from the far south to the extreme, and even crossed the borders of the south to the region and the world, which is now dealing with the south and the Southern Transitional Council as the main party and representative of the south in any future settlement of the Yemeni issue.
The Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council also renewed the call for the Arab coalition to implement its obligations and duties, foremost of which are the payment of late financial dues and operational expenses for the southern armed forces, in accordance with the understandings concluded earlier after the departure of the duty force 293, in order to preserve the high combat morale of the forces stationed in the lines of contact, in the face of the Houthi and terrorist militias, and in accordance with the provisions of the Riyadh Agreement and the mechanism for accelerating it.
Regarding the organizational issue, the Presidency, in its discussion of the General Secretariat’s report on its activities for the first half of April, called for the activities and activities related to Ramadan program and the activities of the fourth anniversary of the historic Aden Declaration, and the establishment of the Southern Transitional Council on May 4 and 11, to consider these events and programs as a firm tradition ,to the values and strong ties that unite the Transitional Council bodies at the central, provincial and district levels with our great southern people everywhere, based on the firm and deep belief in the cause of the South and the goals of restoring the state, sovereignty, identity and national dignity.
The meeting stressed the importance of employing this process for more solidarity and comprehensive national alignment to face all challenges, conspiracies and plans to corrupt the southern political, social and cultural environment through attempts to purchase receivables and the continuation of the war of services within the comprehensive war waged by the Yemeni influential parties with a green light from well-known poles in legitimacy and with external funding .