After repeated failure of Riyadh Agreement, STC declares war from Abyan

ABYAN, Feb. 9 (YPA) – Overthrown Abyan province, by the hands of UAE-backed militias is imminent after the expiry of the date of the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, which is set for the fifth of this month, the second date for the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement.

Observers considered the meeting of the acting head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of Major General Ahmed Saeed bin Brik, on Thursday, with the commander of the so-called “rapid intervention forces”, and a number of field commanders of the STC militias in the Directorate of Loader, a day after the end of the extension period the second is a new war plan, to cleanse the rest of Abyan’s directorates of al-Islah militants.

The coastal city of Shaqra in Abyan, the stronghold of Al-Islah militants in Abyan, has seen great tension between citizens and militants, as the latter raised the “flag of the Republic of Yemen” on vehicles and military armoured vehicles that roam the streets of the city and are stationed on the outskirts of the city.

The second extension of the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, amid political accusations of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, failed to introduce the southern provinces, in the coming of endless conflicts, with the continued dispatch of Saudi military reinforcements to Aden, to remain the lady of the situation, and the final order, under the “Riyadh Agreement” signed Between the Hadi government and the Southern Transitional On November 5, 2019.

In a tweet on Thursday, the southern academic and politician Abdul Rahman al-Wali pointed out that the failure of the implementation of the “Riyadh Agreement” is deliberate by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as is the case with the security situation in the southern provinces five years ago.

Earlier this week, Qasim Askar, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council revealed decisive measures the council would take after the end of the time period to implement the “Riyadh Agreement” on February 5.

“The council’s military and political plan would be implemented after February 5, if there are no other regional or international solutions agreed to by the council,” Askar told “Russian Sputnik Agency” on Sunday.

Askar vowed to remove Islah Party militants, who are loyal to Hadi’s government, from all the southern provinces.

An Arab newspaper on Monday revealed the plan of the “Islah Party” to bring down the areas under the control of the UAE-backed militias, in the province of Abyan, southern Yemen.

In its editorial, the Egyptian ” Elfagr newspaper” confirmed that there is a mutual coordination between the leaders of the Islah and elements of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, to bring down the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan, which was taken over by militias of the Southern Transitional Council, in August 2019, the Egyptian.”

The newspaper pointed out that the Islah Party, which recruited elements of the organization from Marib and Jawf, in order to make the coalition busy with side battles.

It added that the Islah militia is working to delay the implementation of the “Riyadh Agreement”, which is scheduled to be implemented compulsorily on February 5th.

According to military observers, the “Southern Transitional” is seeking to extract the directorates of Abyan, which is the centerpiece for him, to retake Shabwah province from al-Islah militants, after they expelled the “Shabwah elite”, affiliated with the STC, from the city of Ataq, the provincial capital, in August 2019.

E.M