Sudan reaffirms its support to Yemeni government
August 29, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Yemeni President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi began a two-day visit to Khartoum on Saturday for talks with his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir on the latest developments in Yemen and ways by which Khartoum can provide humanitarian assistance to the conflict-wrecked nation.
At a joint news conference following their talks, Bashir said that Hadi “assured us on the status legitimacy in Yemen and their control over many areas and their steady advances”.
For his part, Hadi said that the Yemeni people will not accept the transfer of Iranian Shiite rule to Yemen.
“The Yemeni people patiently endured 50 years of failed governments and Houthis want to import the failed experience of Iran,” he said.
“I already informed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi [their leader] that this cannot happen in Yemen,” Hadi said before stressing that that Houthis are supported by only 10% of the population.
The Yemeni president said that his forces are progressing to regain control over all Yemeni provinces and will not allow the country to end up like Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
He said that he came to Sudan to thanks its leadership on being a “supporter of the constitutional legitimacy in Yemen”.
Sudan is a member of the Saudi-led military coalition dubbed as “Operation Firmness Storm” against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The operation which started last March aims to reinstate Hadi, who fled to Saudi Arabia, as president and flush rebels from main cities in Yemen.
After an apparent stalemate on the battlefield since the start of the military campaign, supporters of the Hadi managed to eject Houthi rebels from strategic city of Aden and four other southern provinces.
(ST)