Minister in Hadi’s gov’t accuses UAE of foiling “Riyadh Agreement”

SANAA, Feb. 6 (YPA) – Minister of Transport in Hadi’s government Saleh al-Jabwani on Thursday accused the UAE and the Southern Transitional Council loyal to it of cooking and foiling the so-called “Riyadh Agreement”.

“The UAE is the one who designed the agreement to strike the legitimacy power centers in the core, especially the legitimacy in Aden,” the Turkish “Anatolia” news agency quoted Minister al-Jabwani as saying.

He pointed out that the agreement did not take into account the reality and did not find its way to implement it at all. “So, we expressed our objection from the beginning, because the UAE mercenaries (the Southern Transitional Council) did not hand over a weapon, a military vehicle, a tank, or a cannon, and not a single soldier was moved from his camp.”

Al-Jabwani added, “the militias in Aden did not stop with this, rather they pushed their soldiers to areas of our forces in Abyan (south), and their gangs through UAE vehicles and soldiers to deliver weapons to their mercenaries in Shabwa (east) to fight our forces there.”

Al-Jabwani addressed a quesion to Saudi Arabia, saying “What are you going to do after the Riyadh agreement failure? Are you with Hadi’s legitimacy, or do the rebel coup gangs in Aden become a reality? ”

He described what is going on in Aden province as “shame”, calling for the fight against the rebel gangs to end the state of dissonance experienced by the province.

The so-called “Riyadh Agreement” had ended Wednesday, amid accusations between Saudi Arabia and Islah Party on the one hand, and the Transitional Council and the UAE on the other.

YPA