Sooki chairs meeting of women's bodies in the Southern Transitional Council

The member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly, Attorney Niran Sooki, stressed the need to activate and strengthen the role of southern women in the current and future stage.

This came during chairing a meeting of women's bodies in the Southern Transitional Council.

In her speech, Sooki stressed the need to raise the level of women's awareness in working with other parties and to fully adhere to the Southern Transitional Council directives represented in restoring the southern state with full sovereignty,

The Advisor to the President of the Southern Transitional Council for Women’s Affairs, Najwa Fadl, also affirmed in the meeting on the Council leadership’s keenness to enhance security in the southern governorates in general and the capital Aden in particular, especially since the world's eyes are on it.

She indicated that entering the Southern Transitional Council into a 50/50 government between the south and the north is the first step towards achieving the desired goal of restoring the southern state, stressing that the issue of the south is currently being managed in the scenes and corridors of the United Nations.

Fadl noted the need to focus on the role of organizations and associations located in the capital, Aden, as well as the full attention of women leaders in international and internal partnerships, in order to enhance the role of women in the Southern Transitional Council.

In an intervention by Ms. Ishtiaq Mohammad Saad, Head of the Women and Children Department at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, she emphasized the need for the women's leadership to understand and be aware of the political issues that are taking place, and their confidence in our wise leadership that it has not and will not deviate from the goal we seek to achieve.

At the conclusion of the meeting, discussion started,  in which it was agreed on the necessity of holding training courses that would help to rehabilitate and raise awareness among the society, as well as the need to attend with political awareness befitting the level of the Southern Transitional Council, in addition to their emphasis on the need for support to help in the process of engaging people to spread awareness and definition of the direction of the Southern Transitional Council following the Riyadh Agreement