A Saudi political activist revealed the reasons for the presence of the Saudi delegation in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden.
Saad bin Mohammed Al-Omari, a Saudi politician and activist confirmed on Twitter that the Saudi delegation arrived in the city of Aden to collect and receive heavy weapons from the STC.
وفد عسكري سعودي يصل عدن لحصر وأستلام السلاح الثقيل من المجلس الإنتقالي.
سمعوني نباحكم #يابقايا_الضاحية_الجنوبية pic.twitter.com/1UKnCf8nf0— سعد بن محمد العمري🇸🇦 (@Binshflout888) February 9, 2023
On Thursday, the head of the Saudi military delegation, Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghamdi, had met with the Minister of Defense in the coalition-backed government in Aden, and gave directions to raise readiness and preparations for what he called “incoming possibilities.”
This came after the arrival of the so-called “National Shield” forces, which Saudi Arabia recruited from extremist Salafist groups, in the city of Aden during the early hours of last night, coming from Saudi territory.
Observers have believed that Saudi Arabia is seeking to put an end to the STC militias in the city of Aden, by implementing the so-called “Riyadh Agreement” signed on November 5, 2019, between the coalition-funded factions to share in the government, after its militias took control of the city of Aden in August of the same year.