Turkey has called on the UN Security Council to remind the United Arab Emirates of its responsibility to comply with international law and international humanitarian law, due to its threat to regional and international peace and security in many regions throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
The claim came in a letter sent by Turkish Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Fereydun Sınirlioglu to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
In his message, Senerlioglu drew attention to the subversive policies of the UAE to suppress democratic movements in the region and seek control, stressing that it had caused the death and injury of a large number of people in Yemen and used to starve millions as a weapon.
The Turkish permanent representative explained that what the UAE is doing in Yemen constitutes a war crime, pointing out that the United Nations and other international organizations have documented the sending of mercenaries to Yemen, their use by child fighters, and their financing by terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda.
Senerlioglu stressed that the UAE had tried to topple the government recognized by the United Nations in Libya, committed war crimes by bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure, violating the arms embargo systematically, and sent mercenaries to Libya from Syria, Sudan and Chad, stressing that it had committed the crime of smuggling people through Forcing Sudanese to go to Libya to fight.
The delegate of Turkey reminded of the illegal siege imposed by the UAE on the State of Qatar in 2017, its fueling the political instability in Somalia, and its support for the regime of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria.
The letter called on the UN Security Council to remind the United Arab Emirates of the responsibility to comply with international law and international humanitarian law, because of its threat to regional and international peace and security in the region from the Middle East to North Africa.