“What militants affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council are doing there is harmful to the national interests. The gunmen are advancing a completely UAE-engineered scheme indeed. They have become the UAE pawns and are sowing the seeds of Yemen division,” Mohammed al-Farah, a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, stated on Friday.
    He emphasized that the unfolding developments in Hadramout are aimed at turning the energy-rich area into a lawless region at the service of foreign agendas, and paving the way for the long-term Israeli dominance over its administrative framework.
   “Saudi Arabia’s intervention has never been for the sake of Yemen’s unity or sovereignty,” Farah stated.
   The senior Ansarullah official added that the UAE and Saudi Arabia are engaged in the occupation of the Yemeni soil and plunder of the country’s natural resources.
   “They are doing this through their mercenaries in Yemen. We reject all interventions and any form of guardianship by any party over Yemen,” he said.
    He also cautioned that any political or military initiative not based on the complete sovereignty of Yemen, independence of its decision-making, and the inalienable right of its nation to its land and resources is a hostile project.
    The UAE has played a significant role as a key partner in the US-backed, Saudi-led war against Yemen and the Ansarallah-led government in Sana’a, which started in 2015. However, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have simultaneously been locked in a competition for dominance over Yemen’s resources and strategic ports.