French Foreign Minister Jean-Louis Le Roy described the war in Yemen as a "dirty war" and called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end the conflict there.
"We can not talk about the situation in Yemen and sell arms to Saudi Arabia without putting this issue in context," he said. "We should be very vigilant about selling arms to these two countries, and that is what we are doing."
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent in Paris Noureddine Bouziane, the remark in Le Derrien's statement is his first demand to stop the war in Yemen clearly, pointing out that France has long been behind the international action, which considers the crisis in Yemen the worst humanitarian crisis.
Bouziane said the French minister did not say that his country would stop selling arms, despite the campaign by non-governmental organizations and human rights groups to demand a halt to the export of arms to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
A French rights and political campaign succeeded in forcing a Saudi ship to return empty-handed after it planned to ship sophisticated French weapons from the port of Le Havre in northwestern France.
French President Emmanuel Macaron defended France's sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates two days ago, which could be used in Yemen, citing assurances that it would not be used against civilians. President Makron stressed that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are allies of France in the fight against terrorism.
In the meantime, the coalition of organizations of peace and stop the German wars and a protest in the German capital Berlin, to demand an immediate halt to the export of arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE because of the war in Yemen.