Emirati newspaper attacks Saudi-led coalition, accuses it of bias

SANAA – An Emirati newspaper, “Al-Arab,” has attacked Saudi-led coalition and accused it of confusion in handling the Yemeni file and lack of impartiality in the implementation of the Riyadh agreement.

According to the Al-Arab newspaper, the Saudi-led coalition is no longer qualified to sponsor the Riyadh Agreement and protect it from collapse.

“The confusion of the coalition in dealing with the Yemeni file extended to its way of managing the difficult and complex relationship between the Southern Transitional Council and the government of Hadi,” the newspaper added.

The Hadi government, biased to the “Muslim Brotherhood” and that confusion was reflected in the departure of the coalition from its neutrality necessary to proceed in Implementing the Riyadh Agreement and protecting it from the collapse that threatens it more than ever before, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper continued: the confusion in the coalition ranks has diverted it from its neutrality and its bias to one side, thereby losing the capacity to sponsor the Riyadh agreement and protect it from collapse.

The newspaper accused the so-called “legitimacy” of trying to “play on the differences between the Southern transitional Council and Saudi Arabia to strained the relationship between the two parties.”

The newspaper said that the agreement is on the verge of complete collapse due to the exploitation of the Islah party, the Yemeni Branch of Muslim Brotherhood, in Yemeni legitimacy gaps.

The weakness of the provisions on the executive side was initiated before the signing of the agreement in an attempt to gain control of southern areas, which in August led to an armed clash between the STC forces and the forces of the Islah party operating under the banner of legitimacy.

The Saudi-led coalition had prevented some of the STC leaders from returning to Yemen’s Aden, via Jordan’s Queen Alia airport.

E.M