The deadline specified in the Riyadh agreement to form a new government has ended
English - Tuesday 10 December 2019 الساعة 08:49 am
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The deadline specified in the Riyadh agreement to form a new government of 24 ministers ended with the participation of the Southern Transitional Council, and the date of December 5 was set for a time limit for government formation according to the agreement signed in the Saudi capital a month before that date, on November 5 last.
The Prime Minister, Moeen Abdulmalik, returned to the temporary capital, Aden, two weeks ago from Riyadh, but no new government was formed, despite the expiry of the deadline for that, according to the agreement.
The war's concerns reverted again in the southern city after a series of events and mutual mobilization of forces that reached clashes in Ahwar, Abyan with forces that came from Marib to advance to Aden, which the Southern Council considered to have abandoned the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement due to the control of certain partisan parties, the Brotherhood, who did not sign the agreement, but they control the legal authority's options.
According to the researcher on Yemen at Oxford University, Elizabeth Kendall, "The timetable for implementing the Riyadh agreement has always been very ambitious. It was not surprising to see" that the deadline was not met.
"The biggest question is, are these promises late or are they ultimately unfulfilled?" Kendall told AFP.
The two parties affirm their commitment to the Riyadh agreement, but they have accused each other of responsibility for not meeting the deadline for forming a new government.
A spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council, Nizar Haitham, had accused the Yemeni government of "breaking with the text of the agreement, including the ongoing mobilization process towards the south," which the government denied.
Nevertheless, a source in the Southern Transitional Council told AFP late last week of "significant progress" in implementing the military and security arrangements contained in the Riyadh agreement.
"From next week, the implementation steps for what has been agreed upon will begin," it said.
But the security incidents in Aden in recent days cast doubts about the responsibility of the parties involved in attempts to undermine the agreement and aimed at implosion and chaos, especially after the failure of the progress of the forces that came from Marib to Abyan and warned by the coalition to never return.
According to Kendall, although clashes have decreased in the south, the situation on the ground remains critical.
She explains, "It is a matter of an agreement that is easy to sign, but almost impossible to implement."
"Riyadh agreement set a set of deadlines that depend on the full credibility of the Yemeni parties, which are very different in their desire and ability to share power in Aden," said Gulf expert, Neil Partrick.
According to Bartrick, "pinning their hopes on the resilience of the power-sharing agreement in Aden is very ambitious."
