Saudi Arabia Forming Political Council Opposite to Transitional Council of UAE in South, Is this a Step to Military Conflict?

Daleb Al Hasani

Saudi Arabia is forming a Political Council Opposite to Transitional Council of UAE in South, Is this a Military Conflict?

There is no longer anything that can be re-produced in the southern provinces of Yemen, just as this war consumed everything from wealth and sovereignty, the present and the future, it also consumed elites and leaders even those run by Saudi Arabia and UAE, and pushed to bitter fighting under umbrella of coalition and so called legitimacy, fighting today to govern the southern provinces instead of the legitimacy they fought to return, after months of the formation of the southern movement, an independent southern transitional council calls for the disintegration from the Yemeni state and independence on 11 May 2017, led by Idruss al-Zubaidi and the Salafist minister, who was appointed by the government of Hadi, Hani Brik, with the support of the UAE.

The council, in response to the decisions of Abd Rabbo Mansor hadi (purely Saudi) removed Zubaidi from his position as governor of Aden, Saudi Arabia is organizing a conference to announce the formation of a group of southern personalities to be prepared and equipped in Riyadh, parallel to the South Transitional Council supported by UAE, this will announce its support to Abd Rabbo Mansor Hadi and supports decisions that overthrew the most prominent leaders loyal to the UAE.

Which will be assembled, and what can follow to these steps?! Will it reach a military conflict wider than the clashes that take place between now and then between these agendas in Aden and Hadramout and a number of provinces? The figures called for this conference are the same personalities who work with Hadi and took a number of portfolios in previous and current governments in fighting for Hadi and Saudi Arabia.

There are demonstration and support to transitional council, while the governors of the three Governorates (Hadramout, Shibawah and Socotra), who were removed and pulled out of their positions and were house arrested, This means that the Saudi-Emirati understandings on the settlement of the dispute have not borne fruit.

What can be deduced and monitored so far is that everyone reached common points that go towards overthrowing the Brotherhood, Hadi allies, excluding the northern leaderships, establishing two southern entities that are free of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporting the independence of the south, and disintegration with the north, an entity with Saudi Arabia and Hadi and the other with UAE, and then move to new steps.

The call for the formation of southern council only to support Hadi suggested and supported by Saudi is going to play purely southern cards in the south and compete with UAE to attract the southerners as a separate entity from the north as Hadi’s legitimacy and so on , what will be the repercussions of these steps?! Those who follow the past events and are fully aware of the clashes now that the next step is military clash.