Southern Transitional Council conveys the Southern issue to the US Congress

Head of foreign affairs for Southern Transitional Council in North America, Abdulsalam Musad along with Ahmed Muthanna Ali and Hamoud Al-Shaabi participated in Washington DC in symposium organized by the US Middle East Coalition for Democracy.
Abdul Salam Musad delivered a speech in the symposium saying:
At the begining, I would like to convey greetings of our southern people, who despite decades of repression and impoverishment on them, our people believe in the culture of protesting peacefully for their independence and freedom.
Mused said that since 1990, northern Yemen has tried to impose a forced unity over our southern people and since then wars have raised in Yemen, in which stability and security have never last and the consequences of chaos expanded beyond borders of the country.
He added that today, we are in twenty-first century, in which slogans as "unity or death" or the try to impose on us " federal state of six-regions" appeared to the people of the south as moody idea, of some personal interests who do not take the aspiration of people of the south into account.
Musad said rejection of southerners to the unity comes due to turning the history of the south and its capital Aden to backward state, it was called once the Arabs jewel and competed on the top in culture, art and free political movement in the 1960s with Beirut.
The southerners reject the unity to maintain their legacy of culture, lifestyle, civilization and ruling by the law, in which  the North ruled by tribal, sectarian and military extremism, as he indicated.
Abdulsalam Musad pointed out to the role played by the southern woman, as she lead and put great influence upon the region, and all of these vanished after the unity.
He made it clear that universities and military and security institutions and facilities in southern cities such as Aden Airport, Seaport got closed in which they ranked third in world for commercial activities. Also cinemas and theaters in Aden suffered after the Yemeni unity. The southern people identity and culture worked on to be eliminated, even southern markets plunged into drugs to destroy young people and spread out crime.
"The demonstrations and protests of southerners are not for imitation or copied image from what's called Arab Spring, for that the raise of southern voice against the threatening of the unity in 2007 appeared" Musad said 
Musad added that the Arab coalition forces supported the gained confidence of southern resistance in fighting against Iranian expansion and terrorism in the region, that lead to the widespread victories of Southern resistance over Houthi militia, the southerners are the vital forces in Hodeidah and they are who fought against al-Qaeda and with support of Arab coalition terrorists defeated in the South.
Musad said:" we are passing by a historical moment, so we carry the wishes of our people within the entity called the Southern Transitional Council that is formed by those who believe in in the freedom and independence of the south, and presented on May 4th, 2017, the people delegated Eidroos Qassem Al-Zubaidi in rally of millions, to lead the people of the South struggling to restore their national sovereignty and reinstate the free and independent southern state.
"The Southern Transitional Council derived its strength from the wide public support to become the active political force on the ground in all the southern provinces and get a global presence and constant contact with United Nations organizations, the UN Security Council" Musad said.
Musad stressed it loud that today we confirm the desire of southern people for disengage from ruling system in the north, that has nothing to do with the aspirations of South and its people.
He added that southern resources stolen and lands occupied by the governments of the north, so any real partnership becomes no possible in which the Northerners are still trying to drag the south into unions with their extremist and sectarian forces and extremist political Islamic groups which do not conform to southern vision as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Musad said that the resolve of the southern issue will be the preface of resolving the situation in Yemen, in which the southern cause cannot be excluded from any peace talks, he reaffirmed that Southerners are not committed to results of any peace talks without their presence.
Abdulsalam Musad praised the southern brigades of al-Amaliqa for the victories against the Houthi militias in the West Coast to for Yemen's liberation.