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Professor of International Law and constitutional drafting expert, participant in Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference, Dr. François Frison-Roche, in an exclusive interview on the program “Fox Middle East” for the AIJES Agency: • After ten years of war, Yemen is no longer the country it once was. The concept of unity in its traditional form is undergoing deep reassessment and may witness a fundamental transformation in the coming phase. • Southerners who fought and stood against the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and the Houthis now have the political and legal right to seek a new governance formula—whether within the framework of expanded autonomy or a path toward independence from the North. • The existing unitary system, in its current form, is no longer sustainable in the medium or long term, given the political and on-the-ground transformations the country has experienced.