Shatara: Any Political Settlement Not Considering the Will of the Southern People Will Never Succeed

[su_label type=”info”]SAMA News – Adan[/su_label][su_spacer size=”10″][su_label type=”info”]Amman – SMA – PIC[/su_label][/su_spacer] Lotfy Shatar, head of media department of the southern transitional council asserted that: any future political settlement not considering the new reality in the south and the will of its people for liberation and sovereignty will never succeed. In his interview with “Al-Quds Press”, Shatara indicated that the southern transitional council explained its vision to the international society and all parties concerned with the Yemeni affairs in addition to communications with UN delegate to Yemen, Ismail Wald Al-Sheikh Ahmed, in several ways. Shatara said: “The southern transitional council is now an undeniable reality as it launched its local branches in Adan, Shabwa and Hadhramaut. The southern people declared their attitudes since 2015 and liberated their lands and today they are translating their attitudes politically through the southern transitional council as the so-called union is now a history for them”. Shatara criticized the statement of Abdulmalek Al-Mekhlafy, Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs, to “Al-Quds Press” last week as Al-Mekhlafy indicated that parties of current talks are only the Yemeni ligitemacy represented by the government and coup forces represented by Ansar Allah and Ali Abdullah Saleh while he considered talks with the southern movement as an “internal Affair”. Shatare commented on that saying: “If Al-Mekhlafy considers talks with the southern movement as an internal affair, then we should ask: are coup forces considered as external independent parties?” Shatara refused to comment on the draft, attributed to Ismail Wald Al-Sheikh Ahmed the UN delegate to Yemen, released by Yemeni media sources on Tuesday saying that: “Till now there are no real initiatives to judge, but any initiative that doesn’t consider the southern people’s will and their achievements on the ground will have no chance to survive in the future”.