Aidroos Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council and Vice Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, received today, Thursday, the American envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking.
The meeting discussed the dangers of the Houthi escalation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab and the piracy behavior practiced by the Iranian-backed militia. Against commercial ships passing through the international shipping line, and in this regard, President Al-Zubaidi renewed the Southern Transitional Council’s condemnation of those terrorist behaviors that threaten the security and safety of international shipping lines, and endanger security and peace in the region, noting that these hostile practices represent a direct threat to food security in our country, It doubled the repercussions of the humanitarian crisis that its senseless war produced on our people.
The meeting also discussed mechanisms for confronting the Houthi escalation, and ways to expand cooperation and coordination with brotherly and friendly countries to enhance maritime security and protect shipping lines in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. In this context, President Al-Zubaidi affirmed the readiness The Southern Transitional Council and the Southern Armed Forces play a pivotal role in securing the international corridor alongside regional and international partners.
In a separate context, the two sides reviewed developments related to the political process aimed at ending the war and bringing peace to our country, as President Al-Zubaidi renewed support for the Transitional Council.

In turn, the American envoy expressed his thanks and appreciation for the positive positions of President Al-Zubaidi rejecting the Houthi escalation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, and his position in support of the efforts led by brothers and friends to bring peace to our country, stressing the importance of cooperation and joint coordination to enhance maritime security and protect the international shipping line at sea. Al-Ahmar, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden.
The UN envoy also renewed his country’s government’s position in support of the political process led by the UN Secretary-General’s envoy to end the conflict in our country, and its position in support of the cohesion of the Presidential Leadership Council and the government to lift our country out of its deteriorating economic situation.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Nasser Al-Khubaji, Chairman of the Assistant Political Body of the Presidency of the Transitional Council, Head of the Negotiations Affairs Unit in the Council, and members of the Council’s Presidency, Mohammed Al-Ghaithi, Head of the Consultation and Reconciliation Commission of the Presidential Leadership Council, Amr Al-Baidh, President Al-Zubaidi’s representative for foreign affairs, and Imad Muhammad, Director of the Office of the Vice President. The Presidential Leadership Council, and from the American side, the political advisors to the envoy Taylor Gilmore and Andrew Hall, the political and economic advisor to the American mission in Yemen, Chris Kufels, and the political advisor to the American embassy in Abu Dhabi, John Ackley.