Alwaght- The regional trip of the Yemeni delegation and the first stage of this trip to Iraq have been analyzed as part of the regional equations. Majority of the media are highlighting regional goals and messages of visits and discussions of members of this delegation with the officials of the visited countries. Despite the fact abovementioned, the influences of these visits on the current developments of Yemen and the messages these trips send are more significant.

The Iraqi officials gave the Yemeni delegation an official reception just like when an official figure visits the country. This means that the leaders of Iraq as a neighbor of Saudi Arabia have officially recognized the process of government building which was launched after foundation of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen. In fact, they have accepted the legitimacy of this Yemeni governing body.

This is the same approach that would be adopted in dealing with the present Yemeni policy by other countries that are destinations for next visits of the Yemeni delegation.

Actually, this approach prepares the ground for the upcoming government of Yemen to gain regional legitimacy. The fact is that the trip of the delegation that contains the members of the Supreme Political Council, the parliament, and the Yemeni political parties to the regional countries carries an array of internal and external meanings and sends important and strategic messages regionally and internationally. The most important message suggests that now there is a new turning point in the process of developments of past five years of the country.

The turning point indicates the severe weakness of the interventionist policies of Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen. This is considered as the clear outcome of the Yemeni people's resistance in the face of the military aggression of the Saudi-led Arab coalition during the past one and half a year, as it at the same time is deemed as a product of the political and military successes of Ansarullah movement and the General People's Congress of Yemen.

In other words, the Yemeni delegation during its regional visits emphasizes on the fact that the time of interventions of Saudi Arabia and its regional allies� as well as the Western backers of Riyadh� in puppet government formation in Yemen has gone. On the other side, the UN is not allowed to implement the Western plans as part of government building project in Yemen. These messages of the Yemeni delegation can be even more serious if we refer to the largest-ever rally held in the country last week in support of the Supreme Political Council.

By picking Iraq as the first destination of its visits, the Yemeni delegation wants to highlight previous weakness and inability of Riyadh in running a successful government building process in Iraq. This indirect message suggests that as the kingdom was met with failure in its interventions in the process to build government in Iraq formerly, at the present time it has totally lost strength for destroying the Yemeni people's determination to introduce an all-new and democratic political system to their country. The trip also sends another significant message to the world: the legitimacy of the Supreme Political Council is not limited to Yemen and the regional countries find the new administrative authority of Yemen legitimate.

Concerning the recent pro-resistance "million rally" held in the capital Sana'a and also foundation of the Supreme Political Council it must be taken into consideration that following Saudi-prompted failure of the inter-Yemeni peace negotiations that were held in Kuwait for several months, the Yemeni political parties and groups founded the Supreme Political Council in a bid to fill the power vacuum in the country and at the same time address the requirements of political scene. Therefore, the massive rally of the Yemenis was a real referendum to show support for the political move towards building a new religious democracy that can guarantee Yemen's independence and in the mid and long terms deter the threats and aggressions the country faces.

By Alwaght