President of the Southern Transitional Council, Maj. Gen. Aidroos Qassim Al-Zubaidi revealed clearly the crucial conditions of the people of the capital Aden and the South in conjunction with the approaching date of the first rounds of UN-sponsored Yemeni talks in Geneva on the 6th of next September.
Al-Zubaidi said in an interview on the program "Yemen in a Week" on Abu Dhabi TV on Friday that the people have the right to protest, adding that protests took place as a result of the deteriorating state of the national income which affects people’s daily living conditions . The fall of the local currency against the dollar and the government's corruption is a main cause for such conditions. The people in Aden have no sources of income except their salaries, which does not last for a week because of high prices in addition to that they receive it every 3 or 4 months. People will not surrender and just lay there and die of hunger in their homes. Therefore we will defend and support the people and their shouts for change by all means. He explained that the KSA has pumped large amounts of cash into the Central Bank of Yemen in an attempt to support the financial situation but what has happened was quite the opposite , the Yemeni Rial's value has drastically fallen saying ,"This is a very strange equation!".
Al-Zubaidi confirmed that the STC totally supports the peaceful demonstrations and strikes which the people of the south practice to express their demands . Making it clear that the Council has warned ,when a Coalition security committee came to Aden ,that the government is torturing the people and that it needs to step down. He stressed that the Transitional Council is not a governing body and does not have the resources to fulfil the peoples demands adding that the legitimacy is responsible for everything, it has resources and institutions.
He continued: "Our cause exists before 'Decisive Storm' opperation, we will waver in our cause and our political rights, whatever the circumstances may be, independence and restoring the Southern State is the solution , adding "We put our hands in the hands of President Abdurbo Mansour Hadi and not the current government, provided that the Arab Coalition is a guarantor, to change people's living conditions.
Al-Zubaidi called for a new Gulf initiative to deal with the new reality, pointing out that without the southern resistance and the Transitional Council everything will collapse and ignoring the southern cause will not lead to a solution. He expressed the STC and the Southerners appreciate the efforts of the Arab Coalition, stressing their stand with them in halting the Iranian expansion.
He noted that the STC was not disturbed by the meeting of the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council with the Yemeni government, pointing that excluding the STC will only lead to failure. He touched on the invitation of the UN envoy Martin Griffiths and his meeting with representatives of the STC, in which they explained to him that marginalizing the Southern issue will be a major reason for his failure as it was the case with the former envoys.
Al-Zubaidi confirmed that those who are manipulated by Iran and Qatar will not be part of the political process, adding that any northern resistance factor which will fight against the Houthis will have the support and backing of the STC until Sana is liberated. At that point we will have our South and they can have their North.
Al-Zubaidi confirmed that if we wanted to be in power, we would not have left our positions and if we wanted to control the south, it would not be difficult. We sacrificed thousands of martyrs and tens of thousands of our wounded are still in their homes without care, we will not give up the goals for which we sacrificed a lot .Our people are in a very bad living conditions and if the situation continues the people will have to defend themselves and their rights. People will not be subjected to terrorism in anyway. There are elements from the legitimacy that support the return of terrorist groups to Aden and the South , we are observing the situation and following their patterns of their operation.
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