UAE Crown Prince Meets with Saudi King, Mohammed Bin Salman to Discuss Yemen
and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over
the latest developments in Yemen. Yemen's southern separatists have
seized control of the southern capital, Aden, from the internationally
recognized government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, but say they
will continue to work with the Saudi-led coalition.
Arab media showed the UAE's Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Zayed meeting with the Saudi King as the Crown Prince looked on. The visit coincided with the capture of government buildings in the southern Yemeni capital, Aden, by the country's southern separatists in recent days.
The separatists have reportedly agreed to attend a meeting in Saudi Arabia to iron out their differences with the Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi. Separatist leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi indicated in a speech Sunday that his forces would continue to cooperate with the coalition.
He says that his side is ready to behave as a faithful and reliable ally and to act on the ground with total transparency, insisting that his men will respect the cease-fire that the Saudi coalition has called for.
Southern separatist militia commander Mokhtar al-Nubi indicated that his
forces were just about finished mopping up, after taking control of
most of Aden, including the presidential palace, from President Hadi's
forces.
He says that his forces have won a major victory in the (southern)
capital Aden and that a number of divisions (loyal to the separatists)
have just about accomplished the task of taking full control of the
region.
Interior Minister Ahmed al-Mayssari admitted that his forces had been
defeated by the southern separatists, claiming that the UAE had given
their militiamen sufficient arms to capture Aden.
He says that he is admitting defeat, but claims that this will not be
the last battle. He says with irony that he thanks his opponents for
robbing and destroying houses and vehicles of Hadi's forces, and claims
that the separatists are behaving just like the Houthis in the north of
the country. He claims that the recent battle was foisted on his forces
by the UAE, which heavily armed the separatists.
Yemen's former ambassador to Syria, Abdel Wahab Tawwaf, told Saudi-owned
Al Arabiya TV that "the UAE has armed militias loyal to the Hadi
government to retake territory from the Houthis [in the north], but have
also armed the southern separatists, bringing about the situation we
are now facing." "The separatists," he says, " have captured the
institutions of state in the south and are attacking all of their
opponents."
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