ADEN (Debriefer)--The southern transitional council on Thursday threatened to take painful steps and go too far beyond the self-administration of the south if the failure to form a new government and implement the Riyadh agreement persists.
The patience of the council will not last long, chairman of the council's foreign relations committee, ambassador Qasim Askar, said, adding that the council has options bigger than the self-administration.
"Any comprehensive solution in Yemen requires the implementation of the Riyadh agreement and reaching a settlement among the factions that will sit around the negotiation table first. The agreement represents one of the bases of the comprehensive solution in the country," he said.
The agreement was signed by the government and the UAE-backed council in November 2019. But the two sides have failed to abide by it, even after Saudi Arabia presented in July a mechanism to accelerate its implementation. Both called for ending violence between the two sides in the south and forming a new government from the south and the north.
Askar accused the General People's Congress and Islah Parties of obstructing the formation of the new government.
"The Islah Party is looking for important portfolios in the new government other than those granted to it under understandings among the factions. And the problem of the General People's Congress Party is related to its quota," he said.
But he did not hide the real intentions of the council expressed in the name of the south, saying the south should have representation in the sovereign ministries in the new government.
We are not talking about our shares but the south in general because there should be a real partnership, he added.
