UAE-backed STC rejects any agreement to pay all employee’s salaries

ADEN, Feb. 13 (YPA) – The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council rejected any agreement providing for the delivery of salaries to all state’s employees in the areas controlled by the National Salvation Government in Sanaa.

Anis al-Sharafi, deputy head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Consultation Committee, accused the Saudi-led coalition countries of manipulating the people of the southern provinces.

“There is talk about paying salaries with the 2014 statements, and paying the salaries of employees of the Houthi-controlled areas since 2016 retroactively, this is what the STC absolutely rejects, he said on Twitter.

Al-Sharafi adding that the STC planned to place priority on settling the status of southern employees who have been forcibly removed from their jobs since 1994, with retroactive effect.

He said that the other parties affiliated with the so-called “legitimacy” had worked to block the way to transfer the country’s administration from Sanaa to Aden and worked to obstruct enabling Aden to manage the (legitimacy) economy independently of the influence of the Sanaa authority.

Al-Sharafi revealed that the former prime minister, loyal to the coalition, Khaled Bahah, tried, after the coalition forces took control of the city of Aden, to complete two projects to establish a communications system for the coalition-controlled areas to move the central bank away from the capital, Sanaa.

He accused also Maeen Abdul-Malik, head of the coalition-backed government of intensifying his efforts to obstruct Aden’s ability to manage the economy and its independence from Sanaa.

Al-Sharafi admitted that the coalition and its allies making the crises that the southern provinces have been suffering from, since the beginning of the war, saying that whenever the STC deliberately pressed or protested to reform the economy file, they fabricated a crisis to divert from its demands.

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