President of Presidential Council Meets with Leadership of Consultation and Reconciliation Commission

  Riyadh

His Excellency President Dr. Rashad Mohammed Al-Alimi, President of the Presidential Leadership Council, met today, Tuesday, with the leadership of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission to discuss the latest national developments. The discussions focused in particular on the unilateral measures taken by the Southern Transitional Council outside the framework of the agreed reference frameworks, and their political, economic, service-related, security, and military repercussions.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Heads of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission: Mr. Abdulmalik Al-Mikhlafi, Mr. Sakhr Al-Wajih, Ms. Jamila Ali Raja’a, and Mr. Akram Al-Ameri. President Al-Alimi underscored the pivotal role of the Commission as one of the pillars of national consensus established by the Declaration of the Transfer of Power to support the Presidential Leadership Council, safeguard partnership, and prevent the country from sliding further into chaos.

The President stressed the importance of the role entrusted to the Commission at this critical moment, which requires collective responsibility and a forward-looking vision that goes beyond reactive measures. He emphasized the need to build effective governing tools to protect state institutions and deter any undermining of the existing partnership among national forces opposed to the project of the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militias.

President Al-Alimi reiterated his firm rejection of any unilateral measures or attempts to impose a fait accompli outside the framework of national consensus and the governing reference frameworks of the transitional phase. He noted that such a path undermines the very essence of the tasks for which the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission was established, foremost among them preserving consensus at all levels.

He explained that the danger lies not only in the unilateral action itself, but also in attempts to turn political partnership into a tool for obstruction and to use state institutions as cover to advance projects outside the framework of consensus.

The President warned that complacency toward this course, politically and institutionally, would lead to stripping the Presidential Leadership Council and its supporting bodies of their consensual substance, thereby threatening the legal status of the state and reproducing internal conflict within the legitimate authority in a more dangerous form.

President Al-Alimi emphasized that the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission is an integral part of the system for protecting legitimacy. He noted that, under the Declaration of the Transfer of Power, the Commission is obligated to stand against any conduct that undermines the existing consensus and the reference frameworks governing the transitional phase.

He renewed the steadfast presidential stance of not allowing the country to slide into any new internal confrontation, while at the same time stressing the absolute rejection, under any circumstances, of turning political partnership into the imposition of a fait accompli by force.

The President also reaffirmed the justice of the Southern cause and that addressing it is a shared national responsibility. However, he warned that exploiting it as a pretext for unilateral measures would undermine prospects for a solution, weaken regional and international sympathy, and divert it from a safe political track into a confrontational one.

He said, “Accordingly, the Consultation Commission is required to affirm that the Southern cause is protected by the reference frameworks and the continuation of the existing consensus— not by force or by reducing it to a single party.”

President Al-Alimi stressed that Yemen’s supreme interests today lie in alleviating suffering, preserving unity of decision-making, sustaining regional and international support, protecting the path of economic recovery, and preventing the isolation or weakening of legitimacy.

The meeting was briefed by the leadership of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission on its approaches regarding the ongoing developments. The briefing affirmed the Commission’s full support for the Presidential Leadership Council and the government, and stressed the importance of moving forward with the implementation of the tasks outlined in the reference frameworks of the transitional phase. It also authorized the leadership of the Presidential Leadership Council to take the necessary measures to protect broad national consensus and mobilize all efforts to confront the Iranian-backed Houthi militias.

The meeting was attended by Dr. Yahya Al-Shuaibi, Director of the Office of the Presidency.