On Wednesday, September 28, in the city of Al-Ghaydah, the capital of Al-Mahra Governorate, the internal Southern National Dialogue team met with sheikhs, dignitaries, and social and academic personalities, as part of its program designed to unite the ranks and come up with a unified vision that has the agreement of all southerners.

In the expanded meeting, which was attended by Mr. Saeed Muhammad Saadan, member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, discussions have topped a number of issues, most notably the justice of representation according to equal ratios that guarantee fair representation in the authority, the army, security and partnership.

The attendees discussed the issue of the state's identity and system and the principles of the Southern National Pact, and a number of proposals and ideas were put forward in this regard.

The attendees stressed that Al-Mahra is an integral part of the south, and the opportunity for dialogue should be used to reach a southern consensus to restore and build a southern state in which everyone guarantees the right to participate and obtains all their rights to wealth, power, and management of their areas.

At the end of the meeting, Professor Saeed Saadan said that restoring the state of the south will only be achieved by all its sons with all its components and political and social elites.

Saadan stressed that the Southern Transitional Council is a political partner of the Arab coalition countries in power and a representative of the southerners in power, and the dialogue came to involve everyone in the future of building the southern state.