Abu Dhabi (Debriefer) - The Riyadh Agreement application disturbs parties hostile to Saudi Arabia, vice-chairman of the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) tweeted on Tuesday.
"Repeated flagrant escalation against ceasefire in Shoqra, which has left three of the best southerners killed and ten others injured, is cogent evidence that there are foreign parties hostile to Riyadh," Hani Bin Boraik added, without naming these outsiders.
"These parties are upset and disturbed by implementation of the Riyadh Agreement," but "we are fully confident that Saudi Arabia would put an end to repeated breaches."
Late on Monday, three of the STC troops were killed and 13 others injured in fighting with the Yemeni official army in the southern governorate of Abyan, according to medical and military sources.
Abyan infighting comes although a Saudi military committee arrived last Thursday in Aden to oversee arrangements for applying the military and security section of the Riyadh pact (reached last November) and its accelerating mechanism declared on 29 July.
These arrangements imply withdrawal of STC forces from sites and institutions, as well as disengagement and redeployment of both sides' troops in Abyan.
In its political section, the accelerating mechanism provides for STC to quit its self-governance, and a technocrat government to be formed, with its portfolios equally shared by Yemen's northern and southern provinces.
One of the gravest obstacles facing the pact's application is the military and security section providing for armed forces be pulled out of main cities and STC's units be integrated into official defense and interior ministries.
