The Southern Transitional Council spokesman to Griffith: "There is no peace without the will of the southerners and their right to choose their future"

The Spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council, member of the Souther Transitional Council Presidency, Salem Thabet Al-Olaki, delivered a frank and important message to Mr. Martin Griffiths, the Special Envoy to Yemen, on the southern issue and its importance in supporting the peace process in Yemen.The official spokesman during a mass rally in Shabwa on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the National Independence Day, 30 November, pointed out to the great efforts made by the leadership of the Transitional Council in the past period during the meetings with the Office of the UN Special Envoy and several ambassadors of countries.The Spokesman explained that the recent trip of Sheikh Hani Ben Brik, Vice President of the Southern Transitional Council, to a number of European countries, and his meetings with many official and non-official bodies there come in the context of these efforts.Al-Olaki stressed that the Transitional Council rejects the principle of participation in the negotiations for participation only, as the Transitional Council looks forward to active participation that puts the issue of the South on the correct political path towards its fair and legitimate rights ..The spokesman said that the leadership of the council, which sacrificed its government positions for the sake of victory for the people of the south and its cause, will never accept any compromise in the aspirations and hopes of the people, and before that, its popular mandate for the Transitional council leadership to represent the south locally and internationally.Al-Olaki talked to the UN envoy through the people saying : "There is no peace without the will of the southerners and their right to choose their future" ,"The peace process in Yemen's general affairs will succeed only by solving the southern issue in a just way that meets the aspirations of its people".The Spokesperson expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Shabwa elite forces and the joint security forces for their great efforts in coordinating the security issue. He highly valued the position of the brothers in the Arab coalition countries led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates For their support in getting the freedom and rehabilitation phases.He reiterated that the Southern Transitional Council supports fully the efforts of the Arab Coalition to defeat the Iranian project and its militias and to secure the region, its waterways and national security from every danger.Al-Olaki had started his speech to the masses gathered in Ataq the capital of Shabwa, expressing the honor to participate in the revival of this event along with his brothers from the people of his province Shabwa.He stressed that Shabwa was pioneer and with great conscious to reject and resist controlling practices in the past and now, warning from any attempts to isolate Shabwa from its national cause or dismantle Shabwa to small projects.