Sweden Negotiations and Scenarios of political congestion in the South

Written by: Professor Abd Al-Nasser Al-Wali
Chairman of the Southern Transitional Council in Aden

[su_dropcap]G[/su_dropcap]ood evening from Aden. The southern street, especially in Aden, is congested due to ignoring the southern cause and its most powerful representative, the Southern Transitional Council, during peace negotiations in Sweden. There are three different scenarios to explain that:

1. The international society is conspiring to bury the southern cause
   The answer is “incorrect” as the southern people have friends and allies who coordinate with us to be present everywhere all the time with real representatives of the southern cause.
2. We are the victims of treachery and we will be vanquished with a third war they are preparing now while we are delusional
   The answer is that the southern people were betrayed during 1994 war as the southern people faced it, but some its sons defended the union innocently without even imagining the betrayal and treachery of Sanaa’s regimen that was discovered later when it was too late. Once again, the southern people were betrayed in 2015 war but this time the people were united against the northern military machine. The southern transitional council was not formed yet then but allies came without arrangements and the will of the people was united with support of allies and this is how we achieved victory, thanks to God. Today, the council exists as a unified political leadership with southern military and security forces united with the public and political will to achieve one goal and face one enemy. There may be some differences about the administration of the free independent south but these differences will never lead us to ignore the goal of restoring the south. We didn’t give up the south when our enemies were in their max power while we were very weak. How come then that we can give it up now while we have a well-established power, regardless of rumors. It is either a good life or an honorable death.
3. The third scenario is that there are international and regional understandings that the solution of the Yemeni conflict is through a realistic reading of facts on the ground to guarantee a just and sustainable solution.
   This requires us to be patient and to establish our achievement through improving our national link without exceeding the stages. We should comfort our partners, friends and allies. We should not be resilient to media pressure and psychological war that want to drive us towards exhausting our efforts in vain. We have no internal enemy. Therefore, what we may take by the sword we can take by the razor. A year or two is nothing in nations’ ages. Let’s work and legitimize our efforts. We will never return to Sanaa as we tried it before. Now, we have Aden and we will never give it up again. We are now wiser stronger and more experienced.