Saudi Arabia leaks British documents on Yemen

RIYADH, Jan. 03 (YPA) – The Saudi Arabia leaked on Tuesday old British documents on Hadramout, the oil and gas-rich province, east of Yemen.

Media outlets published accounts tracking Saudi intelligence on social media revealing documents, issued by a meeting of the British House of Lords, including the minutes of the council meeting in 1967, following the independence of southern Yemen, which includes a plan regarding what was known as the “Eastern Protectorates”.

The minutes stipulated that those reserves, which include “Hadramout, Mahra, Shabwa, Socotra and Khuriya Muriya Islands,” would remain within a unified entity, far from the south.

Posing the British documents regarding the status of Hadramout in this time is a Saudi attempt to convince the UAE-UAE-backed Southern Transitional council that these provinces will not be part of its separatist state in Aden, and an effort to enrich civil conflicts between the sons of Hadramout and the STC.

The minutes was part of British documents that the United Kingdom recently declassified.

It also confirms Saudi Arabia’s refusal to abandon those provinces trying to restructure under the name “Hadramout Region.”

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