Joe Biden can help end the six-year civil war in Yemen by backing a UN-sponsored referendum on independence for the South, the president of Yemen’s secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has said. North and South Yemen were unified in 1990, but large sections of the south including in Aden have never reconciled themselves to their loss of independent status. We need a referendum or some other mechanism for the people of the South to voice their opinions”. It was the British that decided whether to stay or leave, and the EU did not have any say. “Without Iran’s support the Houthis would have been defeated very early on,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 01, 2021 07:00 UTC