evidence: The minutes stipulated that those reserves, which include "Hadramout, Mahra, Shabwa, Socotra and Khuriya Muriya Islands," would remain within a unified entity, far from the south. Posing the British documents regarding the status of Hadramout in this time is a Saudi attempt to convince the UAE-UAE-backed Southern Transitional council that these provinces will not be part of its separatist state in Aden, and an effort to enrich civil conflicts between the sons of Hadramout and the STC. [...] It also confirms Saudi Arabia’s refusal to abandon those provinces trying to restructure under the name "Hadramout Region."