[P]GCC condemns Yemen's Houthi-led transitional council
The six-nation Saudi-led [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) has censured the formation of a transitional council in Yemen by the country’s Shia Houthi movement after dissolving its indecisive parliament.
In a Saturday statement issued at [P]GCC headquarters in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, the US-backed council slammed the move by Yemen’s popular Houthi movement as “a grave and inacceptable escalation” that it claimed “endangers the security, stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yemen.”
The development comes as the leader of the Shia movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, insisted in a public address on Saturday that the transitional presidential council would foil all conspiracies against Yemen while continuing with efforts to end the political vacuum in the country.
Al-Houthi further underlined that Yemeni people are determined to attain their rights.
The Houthi movement also established a “security commission” on Saturday, just a day after taking over control of crisis-hit Yemen, which was previously heavily influenced by the US and neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The [P]GCC, which also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, had earlier called for the Houthis to withdraw from the capital, Sana’a, over which the Shia movement established control in September.
The 18-member security commission in Yemen includes the defense and interior ministers in the government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, the Houthis said in a Saturday statement cited by Yemen’s state news agency, Saba.
The newly-formed security commission, chaired by Hadi’s Defense Minister General Mahmud al-Subaihi, “will lead the country’s affairs until the establishment of a presidential council,” the statement added.
The development came one day after the Houthis published a constitutional declaration on the Transitional National Council.
Under the declaration, the Ansarullah revolutionaries dissolved Yemen’s parliament and announced the formation of a five-member transitional presidential council that will act as a government for an interim period of two years.
The constitutional declaration further said that a transitional national council of 551 members, which will replace the parliament, will be set up to elect the presidential council in a bid to end the country’s persisting political deadlock.
The Ansarullah revolutionaries argue that the Yemeni government has been incapable of properly running the affairs of the Arab country and establishing security across the nation.
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