Saudi Arabia forces STC leaders to hold their meetings in street

ADEN, March. 04 (YPA) – The administrative body of the National Assembly, affiliated with the dissolved Southern Transitional Council (STC), held a meeting,on Tuesday, in a square off the council’s headquarters in Aden, southern Yemen.

The STC leaders present affirmed that what recently happened to the council was a “political filtering that revealed the true intentions of some external parties seeking to undermine the STC,” in a clear and direct reference to Saudi Arabia and its recent actions against the council and its factions.

This move by the leaders of the dissolved STC came as a reaction to the closure of the General Secretariat headquarters last February and the prevention of its employees from entering by factions loyal to Riyadh, as part of implementing the decisions to dissolve the council.

This comes as part of handing over the STC headquarters to the government of Shayea al-Zindani, which is loyal to Saudi Arabia, and returning the National Assembly headquarters to the General People’s Congress party.

It should be noted that the meeting of STC leaders in the street represents a political message of their rejection of the procedures for handing over the council’s headquarters in Aden.