The Houthis are on the outskirts of Ma'rib and the Hadi government is stepping up south and hints at the failure of the Riyadh agreement
English - Thursday 19 March 2020 الساعة 09:29 am
Aden / Mocha, Newsyemen, Amjad Qureshi:
While attention is drawn towards fierce battles at the gates and walls of the city of Marib, amid a state of resentment and local and popular grumbling about the military frustration in the face of escalation and the comprehensive war waged by the Houthi militias from Al-Jawf and Marib to Al-Bayda and Al-Dhale’, targeting Abyan and the repudiation of Stockholm in Hodeidah, the government of President Hadi has moved away to a new escalation with the Southern Transitional Council and heading south.
The foreign minister in the Hadi government inaugurated a new chapter of escalation and tension with the Southern Transitional Council, and launched accusations and warnings from Riyadh during a meeting with the ambassadors of Russia, France, America, and Britain, on Wednesday, while the meeting and official news exceeded any mention of the great and dangerous military escalation of the Houthi coup militias on all fronts and breaches The Stockholm Agreement and the Hodeidah mission , and the government team on the Redeployment Coordination Committee has stopped working after serious attacks on liaison officers and monitoring committees.
Two days after the coalition, in the words of its official spokesman, Turky Al-Maliki, denied that there is any dispute with the southern transitional, and emphasised on completing the implementation of the first part of the Riyadh agreement and work to overcome obstacles to implementing the remainder of the agreement, following a media and escalation campaign that sparked a crisis and confrontation between the coalition and the transitional council, Muhammad al-Hadrami, the foreign minister, talked about what he described as "the consequences of the recent escalation of the transitional council in the temporary capital of Aden," according to the official agency Saba and its Twitter account, and also included a reference to "the Houthi attacks in the governorates of Al-Jawf and Marib."
The agency quoted the Minister of Hadrami as saying, "The recent actions of units affiliated with the Transitional Council in obstructing the work of government institutions, interfering in their tasks, creating new points, and sending additional military reinforcements in Aden is an unjustified escalation and continuation of the armed rebellion that the Riyadh agreement was aimed at ending."
Southern Transitional sources and leaders accuse the parties that dominate legitimacy and control its decisions by seeking to fabricate a confrontation with the south, bombing the situation in Aden, and diverting attention from the withdrawals and dubious setbacks, successively in Al-Jawf and Marib.
For his part, the transitional council also renewed the call for the implementation of the Riyadh agreement, and accused southern leaders of the Brotherhood of obstructing and failing the agreement for goals that fall within the regional agenda and policies of the Qatar-Turkey axis in Yemen by working to target the cohesion of the coalition front.
Minister Al-Hadrami said, "The implementation of the Riyadh agreement has become an unbearable necessity for procrastination and disability by the transitional council."
Concurrently, today, Wednesday, southern sources and circles, accompanied by video clips, accused the forces coming from Marib and affiliated with Ben Ma’li and new reinforcements in Shuqra of carrying out military provocations, artillery strikes, and maneuvers in contact lines with the southern forces.
During his meeting with the four ambassadors in Riyadh, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadrami said, "They should know that the continuation of this approach, these practices, and the escalation in the temporary capital of Aden will have repercussions that threaten the failure of the Riyadh agreement."
The leader of the Southern Transitional, a member of the Southern National Assembly, Waddah bin Attiyah, said in Twitter, in the first responses, that the Foreign Minister's statement "clarifies the intention of legitimacy to announce the failure of the Riyadh agreement ... The legitimacy will soon be declared a failure of the Riyadh agreement and this statement is a prelude."
Adding that the statement "clarifies the annoyance ... from the security measures carried out by the security forces in Aden, and clarifies that the chaos and acts of banditry in Aden systematic work of them."
