Reports: Vassal Regime in South Yemen Sold Oil Field to UAE

SANA’A (KI) – The self-proclaimed Yemeni government, backed by Saudi Arabia, has sold an oil field in the country’s southeast province of Shabwah to the United Arab Emirates, a key participant in the Saudi-led war on Yemen, reports say.
The oil ministry of the self-proclaimed government of Moein Abdel-Malik has confirmed that an important “oil sector” in Shabwah had been sold, Al-Khabar al-Yemeni website reported on Sunday.
In a statement, the ministry said that “Sector 5” has been handed over to a local company affiliated with the ministry.
Earlier reports said the ministry had sold an important oil field to “a fictitious company based at the port of Jebel Ali” in Dubai, UAE, exposing how the UAE is profiting from its involvement in the Yemen war.
Al-Khabar al-Yemeni noted that the ministry’s statement also came a day after the UAE-backed Giants Brigade assumed the responsibility of securing the oil field that produces tens of thousands of barrels of oil daily.
The Yemeni media outlet added that activists saw the ministry’s statement as an attempt to “stave off the scandal of selling the facility and to camouflage the deal” under which the self-proclaimed oil minister and Moein received huge sums of money.
Nearly two years ago, separatists backed by the UAE took control of the strategic Yemeni island of Socotra.
The so-called Southern Transitional Council (STC) took control of Socotra in June 2020, in a move described by the administration of former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, as “a full-fledged coup.”
Home to some 60,000 people, Socotra overlooks the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a main shipping route that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.
Socotra has been a source of tension between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which have been vying for control of the resource-rich island. The Zionist regime has also taken advantage of the developments to gain a foothold in the strategic region.
In another development, the legislature of Yemen’s National Salvation Government is going to introduce a bill that will criminalize all forms of normalization of ties with the Zionist regime, in a great show of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
Yemeni Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the parliament will soon pass a law that makes it a crime to normalize relations with the occupying regime.