GCC chief in Aden to meet Yemen president
The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council arrived in Aden Wednesday, the first foreign official to meet Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi since his escape from house arrest in Sanaa.
GCC secretary general Abdullatif Al-Zayani is expected to meet Hadi at the republican palace in the port city and capital of a formerly independent south Yemen, a presidential aide said.
Their agenda was not disclosed, but the GCC has voiced its support for the beleaguered president in his dispute with the Shiite Houthi militia that overran Sanaa in September.
Under effective house arrest, Hadi escaped Saturday and resurfaced in Aden, where he resumed his duties and retracted a resignation he offered last month.
Hadi has branded all measures adopted by the Houthis, including the creation of a presidential council, as “null and illegitimate.”
Yemen’s GCC neighbors rejected as a coup the Houthis’ sidelining Western-backed Hadi, and the UN Security Council urged the militia to withdraw its forces from government institutions.
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