The UAE, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, expressed its condemnation of the attempts of the Houthi terrorist militia to target civilian areas in Riyadh and Jizan in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with two ballistic missiles that the Saudi air defenses were able to intercept, and resulted in injuries among a number of innocent people, while the Minister said The State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Anwar Gargash, reiterating the Houthi targeting of Saudi civilian sites is the logic of those seeking to continue the war.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation's statement reiterated the UAE's full solidarity with the Kingdom regarding these terrorist attacks against civilians, and standing with it in a row against every threat to its security and stability, and supporting it in all its measures to preserve its security and the safety of its citizens and residents on its lands.
The statement stressed that the security of the UAE and the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are indivisible, and that any threat or danger facing the Kingdom is considered by the state to be a threat to the security and stability system in the Emirates.
The statement indicated that the continuation of these attacks illustrates the nature of the danger facing the region from the Houthi coup, and new evidence of these militias seeking to undermine security and stability in the region, stressing that this attack not only targets the Kingdom, but also the unity and solidarity of the world in these difficult circumstances that The world faces the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19).
For his part, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Anwar Gargash, said in a tweet on the social networking site «Twitter» yesterday, that the repeated Houthi targeting of Saudi civilian sites is the logic of those seeking to continue the war, and looking for media attention, in light of the priority of the world’s response to a pandemic Corona, adding: “Al-Houthi, in every test that cannot go beyond being a rebel terrorist militia, is a tool in the hands of an external regime against the Yemenis.”
In a related context, the Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf, condemned the targeting of Al-Houthi, and stressed that «this terrorist attack, which came at a time when the world is harnessing its efforts to confront the pandemic of the new Corona virus, does not target the security of the Kingdom only, but rather The security and stability of the Gulf region is a flagrant violation of international laws and norms that prevent the targeting of civilians and civilian objects. ” The Secretary-General praised the efficiency and preparedness of the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces, which were able to intercept and destroy the two missiles before they reached their targets, as he affirmed the cooperation of the Cooperation Council to the side of the Kingdom, and his support for all the measures it takes to preserve its security, stability and the safety of its citizens, calling on the international community to bear His responsibilities are to stand firmly against the Houthi militia, in its attempts to destabilize peace and security in the region.
For his part, the head of the Arab Parliament, Dr. Mishaal bin Fahim Al-Salami, condemned the attack in the strongest terms, and stressed that “this cowardly aggressive act, which is launching ballistic missiles towards civilians and civilian objects in populated cities, is a flagrant violation of international laws, charters and norms, and the decisions of nations United Nations and international treaties, and contrary to international humanitarian law, and represents a clear challenge to the international community, and a threat to regional and international peace and security, and it demonstrates the falsehood of the Houthi militia’s revolutionary militia declaration of accepting a ceasefire and its lack of seriousness in confidence-building measures to reach A political solution to the crisis in Yemen.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the legitimate Yemeni government condemned the attack, and considered that "the continuation of such actions by the militias, especially after the militia's statements about accepting the United Nations' call for calm to confront (Corona), indicates its unwillingness for peace."
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"The terrorist attack not only targets the Kingdom's security, but also the security and stability of the Gulf region, and represents a flagrant violation of international laws and norms."