President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and Deputy Head of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), at his residence in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Monday, received H.E. Mr. Ram Prasad, Acting Ambassador of the Republic of India to our country, accompanied by Colonel J.S. Grewal, the military attaché at the embassy, and Mr. Mohammed Shabir, undersecretary in the Embassy.
At the beginning of the meeting, the president Al-Zubaidi expressed his thanks, on behalf of the PLC, for the kind position of the esteemed government of India towards our people, which included unbanning the export of wheat to our country in light of the global food crisis caused by the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, affirming that this humanitarian position is highly appreciated by our people and the political leadership.
The meeting discussed the strong bilateral relations that have existed between our country and the Republic of India, and ways to consolidate and develop these relations, in addition to bilateral cooperation in the security, military and economic fields, and to promote the training, qualifying, and building capacities of cadres of our government institutions.
The two sides reviewed the Indian role in supporting the internationally recognized legitimacy represented by the PLC and the power-sharing government to normalize life and revive the economy.
The meeting touched on the military escalation of the Iran-backed Houthi militia, its intransigence and declining of all international efforts to extend the truce. In this respect, the president affirmed that these militias would plunge the country into the abyss due to its arrogance and insistence on continuing the hostile war as a proxy for Iranian agendas.
In turn, the Chargé d’Affairs of the Indian Ambassador affirmed his country’s stance in supporting the the PLC, and assisting the power-sharing government to properly perform urgent national tasks in the military and economic fields to stabilize the situation and revive the economy.
