A joint Saudi-UAE military delegation arrived in Aden on Thursday to discuss the withdrawal of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and Security Belt forces from government headquarters and positions they seized in Yemen’s interim capital last week.
The Yemeni government considered the interim capital to be under an armed insurgency, and therefore it is difficult for any official party to perform its tasks routinely, revealed government spokesman Rajeh Badi to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper in a phone-call on Thursday.
At the same time, Aden witnessed a gathering for the STC followers – thousands took part in it while leaders of the council absented themselves.
Also, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry suspended activities at its offices in Aden except for service works that have a direct impact on citizens, until things are back to how they were before the STC took control over the government camps in the interim capital.
Minister of State and Advisor to the Yemeni President Dr. Mohammed al-Ameri told the newspaper that the step of suspending the work of the ministry is normal amid the ongoing coup that disrupts all state institutions.
Ameri recalled previous warnings of establishing camps and armed militias’ equivalent to the security forces, in addition to preventing the presidency and the government from practicing their tasks.
He deemed that these activities only serve the Iranian-Houthi project and drift the legitimacy away from its main goal, for which it conducted the “Decisive Storm”.
