Yemen's southern separatists agreed on Sunday to calls from the Saudi-led coalition for an immediate ceasefire in Aden, the seat of the internationally recognized government.
The spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council "the response of the Transitional Council, to the statement of the leadership of the Coalition to support legitimacy, and its full commitment to the cease-fire," according to Reuters.
Riyadh called on the Yemeni warring parties in Aden for an urgent meeting in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said that the Kingdom followed with great concern the developments in Aden and invited the Yemeni government and all parties involved in the conflict to hold an urgent meeting in the Kingdom.
Dozens of people have been killed and wounded following clashes between presidential protection forces and the Southern Transitional Council in a number of areas of Aden since the clashes began last Wednesday, after the funeral of the body of the commander of the First Brigade to support and support Brig. The "Houthis", with a ballistic missile and a booby-trapped plane, targeted a party at the evacuation camp in the Directorate of Brega west of Aden, which killed 36 soldiers.
A Yemeni military source told . on Saturday that the forces of the Southern Transitional Council have taken control of the Maasheq presidential palace, the last headquarters of the Yemeni government and army in the interim capital, Aden, southern Yemen.
The source said that "the security belt forces, backed by units of support and support, received the presidential palace from his garrison," after four days of fighting with the presidential protection forces in the vicinity.
He pointed out that "the handover was preceded by the withdrawal of Saudi forces were stationed in the palace, to the camp command of the coalition in the Directorate of Brega west of Aden."
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