The STC Human Rights Department Calls on the Human Rights Council to Draw a Roadmap for Regaining the South



  The representative of the Human Rights Department of the Southern Transition Council, Advisor Abdel Rahman Al-Musibli delivered a speech on Tuesday at the United Nations Human Rights Council, in which he called for a roadmap to enable the people of the south to regain their free and independent state that would respect human rights and combat terrorism and make use of its strategic location to ensure security and stability in its vital region.

The text reads as follows:

         In The Name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful

 The Euro-Asian Human Rights Forum highly value the efforts made by your distinguished Council and its endeavors to enable peoples eager for freedom to enjoy their right to self-determination.

 Since the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations in the middle of the 20th century of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Unfortunately, There are still peoples struggling for their right to liberate their lands, to self-determination and to restore their freedom and dignity, at the forefront of these peoples is the Palestinian Arab people.

Mr president ..

 As we are reviewing item VII of the Council's agenda on the right of the Palestinian Arab people to self-determination, we draw your attention to the people of South Yemen who nearly twenty-four years, struggle peacefully for restoring their free and independent State.

 Here is the report of the UN Panel of Experts on Yemen (S/2018/6), addressed on 26 January to the President of the Security Council, points out in its paragraph n.22 that the establishment of a southern Yemen is now a real possibility and its paragraph n.37 also made it clear that there's a growing support among the people for the Southern Transitional Council that aims at creating an independent southern homeland.

 Regarding the written presentation (A/HRC/37/NGO/100), addressed on 12 February 2018 to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the situation in South Yemen, we do express our support for what has been written, thus we call on the Human Rights Council to implement a roadmap for enabling the people of the South to regain their free and independent State that would respect human rights, combat terrorism and make use of its strategic location to ensure security and stability in its vital region. 

Thank you, Mr. President and members