Al-Alimi's full address Operations and commitments

Oct 4

Taiz Time publishes Rashad al-Alimi's complete prepared address. He recalls the earlier September-anniversary mobilization and safe-return call and says preparation has become action. He blames the Houthis for renewed escalation, child recruitment, civilian attacks, abductions, looting and threats to neighboring countries and shipping, and says peace opportunities have been exhausted. He announces military operations to regain remaining territory and restore state authority, orders armed, security and military formations to execute approved plans and declares military, security and civilian institutions on full alert until the mission is accomplished. He says civilians, sects and tribes are not the targets; urges residents to avoid militia positions and supply routes, protect children and cooperate with advancing forces; maintains the announced amnesty for those who disarm and stop fighting; and commands discipline, civilian and property protection, without revenge. On behalf of the council and government he renews commitment to the Saudi-sponsored intra-Southern dialogue's outcome, seeking a just, comprehensive Southern settlement and honoring southern sacrifices. He says the government has been instructed to prepare a program alongside operations, prioritizing resumed salaries and arrears, urgent reconstruction, roads, electricity, water, damaged facilities, displaced people's return and economic revival. He thanks Saudi Arabia, credits coalition backing and seeks international support for Yemen, its armed forces and institutions, as well as humanitarian and economic assistance. He defines success through citizens' security, returned families and safeguards against renewed oppression. The address supplies his claims, instructions and promises, not independently verified military gains, fulfilled protections, payments or reconstruction.

During his October 4 address, Rashad al-Alimi renews, on behalf of himself, Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council and the government, their full commitment to what the Saudi-sponsored intra-Southern dialogue will produce, seeking a just and comprehensive solution to the Southern issue. He links this commitment to southern governorates' burdens of war, displacement and economic hardship and the duty to honor their sacrifices. He explicitly recalls an earlier commitment; the current occurrence is its public renewal. The passage announces neither a concluded dialogue nor an agreed or implemented settlement.