Yemen.. Emphasis on the importance of a settlement despite the escalation of the Houthi militia
Efforts to establish peace and calm have resumed in Yemen, despite the escalation of terrorist attacks launched by the Houthi militia against ports and oil installations in Yemen, and their threat to international navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas.
In this context, the Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Nayef Al-Hajraf, affirmed support for the international efforts exerted to extend the armistice and the cease-fire in Yemen, and to reach a comprehensive political solution to the Yemeni crisis, to achieve the aspirations of the Yemeni people.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, "SPA", Al-Hajraf stressed, during his meeting at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council in Riyadh, the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, the supervisor of the Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen, Muhammad Al Jaber, the firm position of the Cooperation Council in supporting everything that guarantees and achieves security and stability. The Republic of Yemen, and support the efforts of the Yemeni legitimate government to achieve security and stability in Yemen.
While Canada affirmed its support for the peace efforts led by the United Nations to reach a lasting and comprehensive peace in Yemen, the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said that he is still in contact with all parties in order to renew the humanitarian truce that ended in early October.
In his briefing to the UN Security Council, he added, "He continues to consult with the parties, not only to expand the scope of the armistice, but also to initiate discussions on a path leading to a more comprehensive settlement of the conflict," and called on the Yemeni parties to abandon narrow and short-term calculations to reach a sustainable settlement.
He pointed out that the Houthi attacks on oil ports have great economic repercussions that led to the suspension of oil exports.
Since the end of the truce due to the militias' refusal to extend it in early October, Houthi terrorist attacks have continued on oil ports and installations in Hadramout and Shabwa, and civilians in Marib and Taiz, in a flagrant challenge to international efforts aimed at returning to the path of calm and peace.
The continuation of the Houthi attacks prompted the Presidential Council and the Yemeni government to classify the Houthi militia as a "terrorist group", and the government affirmed its intolerance to these attacks that threaten the livelihood of Yemenis, trade and energy routes in the Red and Arab Bahrain.
Tariq Saleh, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, confirmed that the leadership council and the government will not tolerate the Houthi attacks that would disrupt the activities of economic facilities with the aim of harming the lives of millions of civilians, following the Houthi militia's adoption of drone attacks targeting the port of Al-Dhaba in Hadramout, eastern Yemen.
During his meeting with the Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations in Yemen, Diego Zoya, in Al-Mokha, west of Taiz, he indicated that the government's adherence to the peaceful path does not mean ever remaining silent about the Houthi terrorist attacks against civilians and economic facilities.
For his part, council member Major General Faraj al-Bahsani confirmed that the leadership council will take prompt measures and measures to protect national economic facilities, and to confront any terrorist Houthi actions and plans in the future that seek to undermine Hadramout.
In Marib, the Houthi militia launched, at dawn today, attacks with marches and guided missiles, on the positions of the army and the resistance, in the Al-Alam Front, north of Marib.
Field sources stated that the Houthi attacks caused casualties among the forces stationed in the area, noting that the militias are trying to penetrate the Marib fronts from the northern side after failing to achieve this in the sandy and mountainous axes.
In Taiz, a child was wounded by Houthi sniper fire in the Al-Aqroud area, southeast of the city of Taiz, while he was in front of his school in the area, causing him a permanent disability.
In Al-Mahweet, west of the capital, Sana'a, a Houthi gunman, after returning from the Houthi fronts, killed his younger brother in the village of Al-Ara in the Bani Al-Khayyat district of Al-Tawila district, in the second horrific crime of violence committed by the Houthis in the district in less than a year.
In southern Sana'a, clashes took place between Houthi gunmen and the owners of the commercial "Sama Mall", after the Houthis attempted to confiscate it, which led to injuries on both sides, as part of the state of arms chaos in the Houthi areas.
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