Ansarullah welcomes Hadi's resignation, rejects Yemen talks in Saudi Arabia
As the fugitive president of Yemen officially announces his resignation, Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says the move has deprived the United Nations of its excuse to continue supporting the aggressors in the seven-year Saudi-led war.
Mansour Hadi’s bogus regime has come to an end, Ansarullah Spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam stated via his Twitter account on Thursday evening.
“The development has refuted allegations of the countries that attacked Yemen under the pretext of confronting coup plotters against him,” Abdul-Salam said.
He added, “The international community and the UN no longer have an excuse to continue using the term ‘internationally recognized Yemeni government’ to massacre the Yemeni nation and enforce a tight siege on the West Asian country.”
Abdul-Salam also slammed talks hosted by Saudi Arabia on the Yemeni conflict, saying the future of the Arab country will be only determined by the Yemeni people.
“The Yemeni nation does not care about the talks sponsored by illegal parties. The only option for the Saudi-led coalition to promote peace is to stop the attacks, lift its siege and move out its forces. Other than that, efforts to settle the conflict are nothing but desperate attempts to regroup mercenaries and use them to escalate the tensions,” the Ansarullah spokesman added.
Ansarullah has already shunned the meeting in Riyadh that was hosted by the Riyadh-led Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and involved representatives from the Saudi-backed Hadi administration as well as US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking.
The Yemeni resistance movement insisted that it would not travel to enemy territory for talks.
Earlier on Thursday, Hadi delegated power to a presidential council and dismissed his deputy.
He also sacked the vice-president, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a powerful military figure, and delegated Ahmar’s powers to the presidential council.
The presidential council is chaired by Rashad al-Alimi, an adviser to Hadi and a former interior minister in the former government of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Alimi enjoys close ties with Saudi Arabia as well as the al-Qaeda-linked Islah party inside Yemen.
The council has seven members, including Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, the head of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) – an umbrella group of heavily armed Takfiri terrorists propped up by the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Sultan al-Aradah, the pro-Hadi governor of energy-rich Ma’rib province, was also named a member of the council. So was Tariq Saleh, a high-profile militant commander who has close ties with the UAE.
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