President Al-Zubaidi meets with members of the Southern Academic Body

The President of the Southern Transitional Council, President Aidarous Qasim Al-Zubaidi, met on Tuesday, at the headquarters of the Council in Aden the capital, with members of the southern academic body.

During the meeting, President Al-Zubaidi stressed the importance of the role played by scientific and academic cadres, noting to the need to enrich the Southern Transitional Council bodies with scientific studies and research in a way that enhances the academic and scientific role in the southern society.

President Al-Zubaidi stressed the importance of establishing southern centers for research and studies, and coordinating with international research centers in a way that lays the foundations for a strategic building of the aspired southern state institutions, within the framework of the project of restoring the State of the South, and its leading academic position in the region.

President Al-Zubaidi touched on the political developments and the international interaction with the issue of the South, foremost of which is the Saudi efforts to resume talks to implement the Riyadh Agreement, pointing out that the Negotiating delegation of the Council went to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in response to the invitation of the Kingdom's leadership, in order to serve the implementation of the remaining provisions of the agreement, which constitutes a starting point for peace, and a safe passage for all, and it unites the efforts to confront the Persian project in the region.

At the end of the meeting, President Al-Zubaidi, listened from the members of the Southern Academic Body, to the most important difficulties facing their work.

The members of the Southern Academic Body explained to President Al-Zubaidi how the southern academic institutions were subjected to systematic destruction, demolition, and deliberate marginalization over the past three decades by the regime of Sana’a.