ABYAN (Debriefer)--The southern transitional council on Saturday accused the government forces of handing their positions in Abyan province to Al-Qaeda and Daesh to undermine the efforts of a Saudi committee which arrived in Yemen to oversee the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement.
The committee arrived in the interim capital of Aden on Thursday to oversee the implementation of the military and security part of the agreement which was signed by the council and the internationally recognised government late last year.
Military spokesperson for the council's fourth military command, Mohammed Al-Naqib, wrote on Twitter that the government forces have handed the command of their positions to emirs from Al-Qaeda and Daesh. The emirs escaped from the area of Yakla in Bayda province after it was raided by the Houthis last week, he said.
on Friday, Saudi ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed Al Jaber, wrote on Twitter: "The Saudi coordination and liaison committee chaired by Mohammed Al-Rabi'e has started taking military forces out of Aden and separating and returning forces to their previous positions in Abyan in accordance with the mechanism to accelerate the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement".
The ambassador did not say where forces headed after leaving Aden.
The government and the council accepted the Saudi-proposed mechanism on 29th July. It called for taking forces of both sides out of Aden and Abyan cities, forming a technocrat government from north and south Yemen, and rescinding self-rule of south Yemen which was declared by the council in April.
The implementation of the military and security part of the agreement represents a huge challenge because it includes the integration of the council's forces in the government armed and security forces.
The command of the Arab coalition in Aden on Saturday summoned hundreds of Adeni soldiers who had been trained in Saudi Arabia to receive further training at a coalition camp in the district of Al Buraiqeh in Aden, sources told Debriefer.
The soldiers are believed to be tasked with guarding public institutions in Aden after the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, the sources said.
