Mohammed Ali Ahmed, the Chairman of the NDC’s Southern Issue Working Group, has called for a page to be turned on the past. This past, he added, ended on March 18, the day Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference commenced.

''Unification is something very great, but Yemen’s unity was deformed by injustice at the hands of certain elements of the last regime, which stole wealth,” said Ahmed during a speech before the full conference membership on Tuesday.

He added that if the southern issue was resolved, it would represent the key to solving all of the problems which Yemen has been suffering from.

Speaking to a full crowd of NDC members from all nine conference working groups, Ahmed said, ''You members, you will draw the roadmap and shape Yemen’s new era.''

Ahmed added that the NDC's members had arrived at the dialogue to resolve crises in north and south Yemen, and that they hadn’t come to complicate the situation. He also said that all members bore the responsibility of rooting out all forms of oppression, whether they existed in the south or the north.

The Southern Issue Working Group Chairman praised the efforts of the individuals in his group whose efforts led to the completion of summaries of the southern issue’s ‘roots’ and key components.