[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr stressed the need for the country to maintain its unity amid separatist protests in the south and the failure for reaching a breakthrough between its two warring sides.Daghr stated that the issue of Yemen's unification as "complex" and one that will take time to tackle, and revealed that it was an issue that was addressed during the national dialogue conference.
"The political forces that attended the national dialogue agreed that Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
needs to maintain its unity, though restructuring it is a necessity," Daghr said in an interview with Egypt’s state-owned news site Ahram Online.
The Yemeni premier’s comments come amid demonstrations in the countries’ south calling for a secession from the Houthi-controlled north.
The Southern Mobility Movement, more commonly known as al-Hirak ‐ ’the movement’ in Arabic ‐ advocates for a return of the independence of south Yemen. From 1967 to 1990, South Yemen existed as an independent state, with the port-city of Aden as its capital. To the northwest was the Yemen Arab Republic, or North Yemen, with its capital in Sanaa.