Abyan: The Governor of Abyan, Saleh Al Junaidi, affirmed that protecting the national achievements made by the Yemeni people in its north and south, most notably preserving Yemeni unity achieved 36 years ago, has become a priority for all free national forces. Al Junaidi pointed out in a statement to the Yemeni News Agency Saba on the occasion of the 36th National Day of the Republic of Yemen, May 22, that foreign conspiracies attempting to thwart this popular achievement that ended eras of division are still ongoing. Despite more than three decades having passed since the achievement of Yemeni unity on May 22, 1990, this places the free people of Yemen before a historic responsibility to preserve Yemeni unity and confront new colonialism projects.
According to Yemen News Agency, Al Junaidi directed a message to the free people of the southern provinces, stating that what Abyan province, in particular, and the southern provinces, in general, are suffering from-severe deterioration in public services, security chaos, systematic looting of oil, mineral, and fish wealth, and the depletion of public resources-reflects the danger of the conspiratorial foreign scheme. This scheme is implemented through local tools via militias with multiple loyalties to foreign powers at the expense of the homeland and the southern citizen.
The Governor of Abyan noted that those who have exploited the southern cause and employed it to gain gains and positions do not represent the southern people and are not authorized to carry their just cause, which must be resolved under the umbrella of national unity. He described what is happening today in the southern provinces by Saudi Arabia and the UAE as a full-fledged occupation, pointing out that the struggle for influence in the southern provinces over the past months and years between Saudi Arabia and the UAE through their tools confirms the extent to which occupation projects collide with each other in a free and independent country.
He explained that these struggles, which have extended over the past months from Al Mahrah to Aden, Lahj, and Al Dhale, confirm that the new occupation forces are seeking to turn the south into American and British colonies with local administration and Saudi-Emirati supervision. This indicates that all evidence that has occurred and is occurring in the southern provinces confirms that the enemy exploited the southern cause to implement colonial agendas with international connections that have nothing to do with this cause.
Governor Al Junaidi pointed out that the just solution to the southern cause will not be by subordination to foreign powers, handing over the southern provinces to regional colonial powers, or begging for solutions from Riyadh or Abu Dhabi. Rather, the just solution to the cause that was exploited by internal and external forces lies in the capital of Yemeni decision-making, in the capital Sanaa.
He renewed the affirmation of the revolutionary and political leadership openness to fair solutions to the southern cause and Sanaa's readiness to engage positively with just demands under the umbrella of national unity, calling on the people of Abyan and the southern provinces to prepare for a new stage of national liberation from foreign colonialism and its remnants. The Governor of Abyan concluded his statement by saying that the people of the south are the most entitled to protect Yemeni unity, as this national achievement was achieved with the participation of all the people of the south since the early 1970s until the date of the restoration of Yemeni unity on this glorious day 36 years ago.