The Southern National Dialogue Team met today, Thursday, in the capital, Aden, headed by Mr. Abdulsalam Qassem Massad, deputy head of the team, with the leadership of the National Council for Independence. 

The team stressed that the Southern National Dialogue is an opportunity to understand the supreme interest of our country, in order to establish our southern unity and consolidate efforts on the ground to confront the various political, economic, living and social challenges facing the south.

The team also stressed the absorption of all observations, proposals and opinions and submitting them to the southern political leadership, which follows with great interest the dialogue sessions, as formulating the future of the south is a task that includes all the people of the south who are eager to restore their independent state. Accordingly, the outcomes of the dialogue should be national, in which everyone, without exception, contributes to the formulation of a Southern National Pact that reflects the concerns and aspirations of our people, who yearn for freedom, security, stability and peace.

For his part, Mohamed Ali Shayef, head of the National Council for Independence, praised the Southern Transitional leadership's call for dialogue, which he hopes will extricate the south and its governorates from bad conditions and work to end the negatives that accompanied the past years, especially those years that followed the recent war.

He called for the necessity of setting controls to be signed to ensure political commitment to the outcomes of the Southern National Dialogue.