Mr. Ali Abdullah Al-Kathiri, Acting President of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and Chairman of the National Assembly, met today, Monday, with the Command of the Supreme Military Commission of the Southern Army and Security, led by Major General Saleh Ali Zangal, head of the Commission.
In the beginning of the meeting, which was attended by Mr. Nasr Harhra, Rapporteur of the National Assembly, Mr. Al-Kathiri welcomed the command of the Commission and briefed them on the conditions of the laid-off and retired officers and soldiers, the suffering experienced by personnel of the southern army and security in the governorates of the South, and the families of the martyrs and the wounded as a result of the irregular paying of their salaries and the failure to implement settlement decisions for the laid-off and retired.
Al-Kathiri highlighted the keenness of the STC, led by President Aidarous Qassem Al-Zoubaidi, Supreme Commander of the Southern Armed Forces, to put an end to the deliberate side-lining of personnel of the southern army and security by successive governments and to exert pressure through the southern ministers in the government towards developing an urgent action plan to regularize the payment of salaries and implement settlement decisions as soon as possible.
The chairman of the Assembly also affirmed the interest of the STC in strengthening the role of military commanders and involving them in the process of building the southern army and maintaining the security institution on the path to building an independent federal state of the South.
The meeting was attended by Brigadier General Saleh Mohsen Al-Qadhi, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Military Commission of the Army and Southern Security, Brigadier General Naji Mohammad, Political and Media Representative of the Commission, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly, and Brigadier General Nasser Haidara, Head of the Commission’s branch in the capital, Aden.
