Saudi Arabia This Saturday he invited “all the southern factions” of Yemen to a “dialogue” in Riyadh to end the clashes between separatists and other members of the government coalition.
Yemeni independentists, backed by United Arab Emiratessurprised the day before with the announcement of a two-year transition towards the creation of an autonomous State in the south of the country, coinciding with deadly Saudi bombings to expel them from there.
The recent advance of the separatist faction represents a turn in this complex conflict that opposes the poorest country in the arabian peninsula to the government recognized by the international community and to the Houthi rebels backed by Iran.
The Houthis In 2014, they took the capital Sanaa and large parts of the north of the country, from which they launch attacks against Israel or against ships transiting the Red Sea.
Riyadh and Abu Dhabitraditional but increasingly distant neighbors and allies, oppose these rebels, but support different factions within the Yemeni government.
In a statement published on social networks, the Saudi Foreign Ministry called for holding “a global conference in Riyadh to bring together all southern factions to debate just solutions for the South’s cause.”
Riyadh claimed that the Yemeni government was the one that issued the invitation for the talks.
On Friday, airstrikes by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia They left 20 dead, according to the separatists.
That alliance was formed in 2015 with the goal of expelling the Houthis from northern Yemen. However, after a brutal decade-long civil war, rebels remain in their territories, while factions backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates attack each other in the south.
