President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council, held this Friday, a joint meeting with the Internal southern National Dialogue Team, and heads of a number of southern Political Components, presented by lawyer Ali Haitham Al-Gharib, head of the Peaceful Southern Movement Council, former Minister of Justice, and Abdul Raouf Zain Al-Saqqaf, head of the Supreme Council for the Revolutionary Movement, and Fadi Hassan Ba'um, head of the Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Movement Council.

 At the outset of the meeting, which was attended by two members of the Transitional Council's Presidium, Engineer Adnan Mohammad al-Kaf and Professor Salem Thabet al-Awlaki, President Al-Zubaidi listened to a detailed explanation of the activities of the Internal southern National Dialogue Team, and the outcomes of its meetings with  various components, political parties, civil society organizations, youth and women’s forums, and personalities, and the visions that were presented during those meetings for the future and shape of the southern state.

 During the meeting, the understandings reached by the dialogue team with a number of the main political components were reviewed, to hold a consultative meeting to find out about the draft National Pact, and present views and observations on the National Pact, in preparation for its approval as a document that defines the form and future of partnership between all southern national forces and components.

 After that, the meeting discussed mechanisms for coordinating action to strengthen the unity of the southern ranks, to overcome the challenges facing the people of the south and their cause, and prepare for the upcoming important political events within the framework of international efforts to end the war and bring peace to the region.