On Wednesday, the Presidium of the Southern Transitional Council held its periodic meeting, headed by the Secretary-General of the General Secretariat of the Presidium, Governor of the Capital, Ahmed Hamid Lamlas.

In its meeting, the Presidium praised the wide popular participation, the success of the carnival event, and the joyful festival that took place in Zanzibar, the capital of Abyan Governorate, yesterday, Tuesday, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the National Independence Day, November 30th .

The Presidium also praised the efforts of the local leaders in Abyan Governorate for the good organization of this mass festival and its production in a manner befitting the greatness of the occasion, stressing in the context the insistence of the people of the south and their political leadership to extract their right to restore their sovereignty over their land.

Then it listened to the report submitted by the Training and Rehabilitation Center on its performance since its establishment in May of this year, praising the efforts being made to train the Council's cadres and develop their specialized capabilities necessary in their field of work.

In another context, the Presidium discussed the report submitted by the Decision-Making Support Center on the situation and developments in the southern arena, the most important of which are the repeated attacks by the Houthi militia on the sites of the southern security forces and civilian, with various types of weapons, which caused the death of many women and children, surprised that the UN envoy ignored all the killings of innocent people who are safe in their homes by this terrorist militia.

The Presidium called on the UN envoy, Mr. Hans Grundberg, to present credibly in his briefings to the UN Security Council those crimes and to demand effective measures be taken towards them instead of rewarding the militia by pressuring the other party to make new concessions in its favour. 

At the end of its meeting, the Presidium touched on a number of other issues related to the work of the Council and its bodies, and took the necessary measures in this regard.