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Yemeni politicians say the UAE's low and inappropriate formalities extended to Yemen's fugitive president Mansour Hadi during his welcoming ceremony at the airport and the Emirati officials' repeated excuses for turning down meetings with him show increasing tensions and rifts among members of the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen, specially Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
"The UAE has launched a scrutiny into the situation in Yemen and it avoids frantic actions that are done by Saudi Arabia," Hosham Abdolmalek, a leader of Yemen's popular committees, told FNA on Wednesday.
"Therefore, the situation in Southern Yemen is not assessed as positive for the UAE, specially after Mansour Hadi's return to the Saud dynasty and implementation of their plots following increased political differences and tensions among the Arab (Saudi-led) coalition members," he added.
Also, Mohammad al-Sa'ad, a member of Lahij provincial council, told FNA that Kuwait had adopted policies similar to those of Oman since the start of the military aggression against Yemen and it doesn’t want war, aggression and terrorism in the region.
"Today, we see that Kuwait has taken an action that is good and to the benefit of its army, and has withdrawn its forces from Southern Yemen because it is informed of the hi-tech military technology and equipment achieved by the Yemeni army," he said.
The rifts among the Saudi-led coalition members are widening so fast and so deep that frequent reports are surfacing the media in this regard.
Earlier today, a leading Arab daily also underlined widening gaps between Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the threshold of the third year of war against Yemen.
Al-Rai al-Youm newspaper referred to the unprecedented visit by fugitive Yemeni president Mansour Hadi to Abu Dhabi, and wrote in its editorial page that while the trip was aimed at soothing the wrath of the Emirati officials and narrowing the gaps, most reports show that the effort failed.
The daily pointed to the low and inappropriate formalities extended to Mansour Hadi during his welcoming ceremony at the airport and the UAE officials' repeated excuses for turning down meetings with him, and said Abu Dhabi degraded Hadi's status to the level of a security official.
Also, according to the information released by the UAE media, Abu Dhabi has accused Mansour Hadi's son and a number of other Saudi-led commanders in Southern Yemen of surrendering certain parts of Abyan province to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, the Arab paper added.
Meantime, independent Yemeni sources told al-Rai that the disputes between the UAE and Hadi are just meant to derail attention from bigger differences between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh which might dissuade the UAE from continued membership in the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen.
A Yemeni intelligence source disclosed on Tuesday Saudi Arabia's attempts to reinvigorate al-Qaeda terrorist group in Abyan province through excessive arms shipments and aids.
"The al-Qaeda terrorists have received a cargo of weapons sent by the Saudi mercenaries stationed in Marib, near Akad heights in Lodar city of Abyan province," the source told FNA.
According to the Yemeni activists in the Southern parts of the country, the forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar (fugitive president Mansour Hadi's deputy commander of armed forces) have sent the arms to al-Qaeda after the terrorist group's recent defeats in different cities of Abyan province, the source added.
The al-Qaeda terrorist group is fighting against the Yemeni army and popular forces in Yemen, while multiple reports and documents show that the terrorists are operating for the Saudi army after working out a deal last year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
