The Transitional Council holds the first annual meeting of its leaderships bodies and discusses level of performance in 2018

Under the chairmanship of the President of the Southern Transitional Council, Aidaroos Qasim Al-Zubaidi, the first annual leadership meeting of the Southern Transitional Council held on Tuesday, in the presence of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, the local leadership of the Transitional Council, the heads of the General Secretariat departments and committees of the National Assembly.

The meeting reviewed the annual report of the Southern Transitional Council for the year 2018, including the performance reports of the Presidency of the Transitional Council, report of the National Assembly, the Decision Support Center, and the work progress of the General Secretariat,  in addition to the mechanism used in preparing the annual report.

In the meeting, President Al-Zubaidi stressed on the importance of this first annual meeting in this year and launching the new year with new plans and programs, stressing that 2019 will be the year of empowerment.

President Al-Zubaidi pointed out that the Southern Transitional Council has been able to present the southern issue in various international forums and enhance its presence strongly for any possible resolutions to resolve the issue of Yemen in general.

 

Al-Zubaidi briefed the meeting on the results of the external meetings of the Council's Presidency, referring to the knowledge of the international envoy through multiple meetings with him that no way to resolve the issue of Yemen without resolving the southern issue.

 

Al-Zubaidi added: "We will continue our struggle side by side with all forces that believe in the restoration of the southern state, and we will remain on the ground no matter what cost us, and we will not give up the blood of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for their land."

 

The President of the Southern Transitional Council announced an upcoming project to qualify the southern young people in terms of training and rehabilitation.

 

Al-Zubaidi praised the work of the Southern Transitional Council's offices abroad in enhancing the Transitional Council's relationship with the Office of the International Envoy and the international organizations.

 

The President of the Southern Transitional Council said: "The people of the south have put great confidence in the Southern Transitional Council, and by Allah willing, the Transitional Council and all its members will be at the level of that confidence".

 

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Southern Transitional Council, Ahmed Hamid Lamlas, said that everyone will participate in the process of evaluating the performance for the last year and launching the plan of the new year.

 

Lamlas added that "the evaluation aims to follow a steady and correct steps that the Transitional Council based on towards building the southern state on legal and administrative basis." hoping to come out with positive proposals for the development of the performance in the current year.

 

The discussions in the meeting raised by the participants addressed a number of observations and difficulties recorded during the implementation of the plans and programs of the past year, and put forward proposals and ideas that were included as outputs and recommendations for the meeting, which will be included in the plans of the current year.