DOHA, December 30. /TASS/. Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, ruled to sever a joint defense agreement with the United Arab Emirates over separatists’ actions in the eastern republic, according to a decree released by republic’s official news agency SABA.

"This is to cancel a joint defense agreement with the United Arab Emirates," the document reads. Yemen also demanded that the UAE withdraw all its forces and technical personnel from the republic within 24 hours.