UAE welcomes Saudi efforts to support security in Yemen amid STC advance

Statement comes time aft Saudi Arabia told Yemeni separatists to retreat from eastbound governorates seized this month.

The United Arab Emirates has welcomed Saudi ‍Arabian efforts ‍to enactment information and stableness successful Yemen and remains committed to backing stableness successful the country, the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The UAE connection connected Friday came a time aft Saudi Arabia said it hopes Yemen’s main confederate separatist group, the ⁠Southern Transitional Council (STC), volition extremity an escalation and retreat its forces from the eastbound provinces of Hadramout and al-Mahra.

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The STC, which antecedently received subject and fiscal backing from the UAE, pushed the ​Saudi-backed, internationally recognised authorities from its office successful Aden portion ‍claiming wide power crossed the southbound earlier this month.

“The UAE reaffirmed its steadfast committedness to supporting each endeavours aimed astatine strengthening stableness and improvement successful Yemen,” ‍the Emirati Foreign ⁠Ministry said successful its statement.

On December 12, a associated Saudi-Emirati subject delegation arrived successful Aden to sermon measures aimed astatine defusing tensions successful the country.

Saudi Arabia ​said the teams were sent to marque “the ‌necessary arrangements” to guarantee the instrumentality of STC forces to their erstwhile positions extracurricular the 2 provinces, adding that the efforts were inactive successful progress.

The STC beforehand has threatened to punctual a confrontation wrong a fragile conjugation that has been battling the Iran-backed Houthi rebels successful Yemen’s northbound for a decade.

The separatists were initially portion of the confederation that intervened successful Yemen successful 2015 against the ‌Houthis. But the radical has turned ⁠on the authorities and sought self-rule successful the south.

Yemen has already been marred by a civilian warfare since 2014, with the Houthis controlling the bluish portion of ‌the country, including the superior Sanaa, aft forcing the Saudi-backed authorities to fly south.

Situated betwixt Saudi Arabia and an important shipping way connected the ‍Red Sea, Yemen was divided into bluish and confederate states until 1990.