President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council, Dupety-Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, met in his office in the capital, Aden, on Wednesday, lawyer Ali Haitham Al-Gharib, head of the Peaceful Southern Movement Council, former Minister of Justice.

 President Al-Zubaidi discussed with Lawyer Al-Gharib a number of developments on the national scene, foremost of which are the efforts being made to unite the southern ranks, strengthening national cohesion, to face the challenges of this stage, and prepare for the upcoming entitlements of the south and its people.

 During the meeting, President Al-Zubaidi reviewed the understandings reached by the Southern National Dialogue team, with the southern political components, to integrate within the framework of the Transitional Council and the structuring process that will include the Council's bodies and their various committees.

 The President also reaffirmed that the doors of the Transitional Council were and will remain open to all southerners, and the Council has not and will not be the monopoly of a particular party, region, or political component, based on the firm principle that the south will only exist with all and to all  its people.

 For his part, lawyer Ali Haitham Al-Ghareeb appreciated the great efforts made by President Al-Zubaidi to unite the southern ranks, strengthen the home front, and his full openness to all southern powers without exception, stressing his full confidence in President Al-Zubaidi's ability to lead the ship of the south to safety.