Shura Council, Parliament Condemn American Moves in Occupied Provinces, Calls for Vigilance

The Speaker of the Shura Council, Hussein al-Aidarous, affirmed that the role of the resistance in the occupied territories is to prevent the occupier from settling at any cost.

In a statement to Almasirah TV, Sunday, Al-Aidarous said, “The appearance of the commander of the American fleet at Al-Ghaidha airport, behind him pictures of the leaders of the Saudi regime, confirms that Al-Mahra governorate is under American and Saudi occupation.

He added that the US forces are establishing military bases in Al-Mahra and other areas, stressing that they are “occupation forces and will not deviate from this context.”
The Yemeni Parliament had renewed its rejection of any foreign presence on Yemeni lands, islands and waters, regardless of its justifications, warning of US plans targeting the unity and sovereignty of Yemen.

For its part, the Southern National Front for Confronting the Invasion and Occupation warned of the dangers of repeated US visits to the governorates of Hadramout and Al-Mahra.

The Front considered the visits of the US ambassador and military leaders in the Central Command of the US Navy to Al-Mahrah as a flagrant violation of Yemeni sovereignty and an act condemned by international norms and ancestors.

“The visit of the US delegation to the city of Al-Ghaydah comes as a continuation of the American colonial moves to the southern governorates, and confirms that the American project in Yemen is colonial, not a peace project,” it said.

It held the countries involved in aggression and their mercenaries, responsible for any new foreign military presence on the Yemeni islands in the Arabian Sea. It emphasized the right of the national forces to prosecute the mercenaries who provided cover for that presence that harms the independence and sovereignty of Yemen.

Yesterday, the spokesman for the Peaceful Sit-in Committee for the People of Al-Mahrah, Ali Mubarak, denounced the visit of the US Ambassador, “Stephen Gavin” and the commander of the US Fifth Fleet, “Brad Cooper”, to Al-Ghaydah Airport, which Saudi Arabia has turned into a military base.

The US military moves in the governorates of Al-Mahra and Hadramout have escalated significantly and provocatively during the recent period, in parallel with the efforts of US to thwart peace efforts and circumvent the demands of the Yemeni People and the requirements for a solution, including the complete departure of foreign forces from Yemen.