FM says govt met all its obligations under separatists sabotaged agreement

Yemen’s Foreign Minister said the government had met all its obligations under the power sharing Agreement of Riyadh which the southern separatist militias sabotaged a couple of days ago.

Mohammed al-Hadhrami told the British The British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly in a meeting here today that the Southern Transitional Council’s recent declaration of self-rule in south Yemen is “rejected and it sabotages the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement” brokered by Saudi Arabia in November 2019.

Al-Hadhrami affirmed the Yemeni government’s keenness to secure a comprehensive and permanent peace based on the three terms of reference for peace: the GCC Initiative, the outcomes of the National Dialogue of 2013-2014 and the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.