The Southern Transitional Council in the capital, Aden, organized a rhetorical party to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the historic Aden Declaration on May 4, 2017, and the establishment of the Southern Transitional Council on May 11 of the same year.

At the ceremony, which was started with the southern national anthem and then recited verses from the wise dhikr, Professor Ali Abdullah Al -Kathiri, Acting President of the Council and President of the National Assembly, delivered a speech conveyed at the beginning of the attendees. The greetings and blessings of President Aidarous Qassem Al -Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council, on this great occasion, and his wishes for all success and success and achieve the desired goals.

Al -Kathiri added, during the ceremony, which was attended by a number of members of the Presidency of the Transitional Council, the ministers of the council in the government, the heads of the auxiliary bodies, the leadership of the local authority, and a number of military and security leaders, that May 4, 2017 is a historical day immortal to this people, as it was the first to the southerners wrapping around one leadership, and to start to continue the liberation phase to the empowerment, to restore and build an independent state with permission God.

Al -Katheeri continued his speech by saying: "This occasion requires that we stand to evoke that one southern spirit that established the launch of this genie that carried this issue, maintaining the gains made," stressing that the tasks today are great, the challenges are great, and the risks are greater, and it requires everyone to be in the highest levels of readiness.

Al -Katheeri touched in the context of his speech to the situation in the south, pointing out that the south today faces many attempts to invade and detonate the situation from within the governorates, reaffirming that the transitional council, and the southern military and security forces will not stand idly by those attempts aimed at undermining the gains that have been made to our people and its just cause during the past years, and they will remain on the covenant and promise that sacrificed The martyrs and the wounded.

Al -Kathiri stressed that the Southern Transitional Council, and the southern military and security forces are red lines, and it is not permissible for anyone to detract from it or try to prejudice it, adding by saying: “We may disagree and show, but we must be all at the level of challenge, and we do not allow any forces to return us to the post -94 stage, the state of fragmentation and disintegration.”

Al -Kathiri pointed out that the successes and achievements of the south since the historical declaration of Aden, the popular mandate of President Aidroos Al -Zubaidi, who resulted in the establishment of the Southern Transitional Council, the southern national dialogue, and the signing of the National Charter, was done on the basis of “the south for all and all its sons.”

Al -Kathiri concluded his speech, stressing: "We must all strive for a free homeland that collects and does not differentiate, and achieve a complete partnership between the sons of the south from the east to Bab al -Mandab in the west.

The ceremony, which was also attended by a number of heads of the National Assembly committees, the General Secretariat departments, and a number of leaders of the local authority in the capital, Aden, presented a short documentary film that reviewed the historical transformation in the south since Aden's historical declaration, and the long stages of President Aidros Qassem Al -Zubaidi, his political and military career, and the popular authorization that he granted to him to establish a political entity to his chairmanship to manage and act South.