Saudi aggression against Yemen strategic mistake: Iran official
A senior Iranian official has called Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen a strategic mistake, urging help for Sana’a.
Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN special envoy to Yemen, on Friday.
The Iranian official said that the Saudi aggression against Yemen poses threat to the security of the region.
He also stressed that Iran backs the unity and territorial sovereignty of Yemen, saying that the Islamic Republic will continue efforts to dispatch humanitarian assistance for the Yemeni people. Tehran, despite obstacles put in its way by Riyadh, has already sent aid to the Yemeni people
Amir-Abdollahian stressed that holding peace talks between Yemeni parties and without any foreign intervention is the key to the termination of conflict in the country, and urged the United Nations to take serious measures to eradicate aggression, like that of Saudi Arabia on Yemen, in the world.
He also called for the cessation of the Saudi attacks on Yemen, and called on the UN to remove a Saudi blockade on the impoverished Arab country.
The UN envoy to Yemen also said, for his part, that Yemeni groups are scheduled to sit for peace talks on June 14 in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Ahmed also said that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is trying to bring to an end the Saudi aggression against Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has not been endorsed by the UN.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Yemen's Supreme Revolutionary Council, said on Wednesday that the movement is ready to participate in the peace talks, adding that no peace deal could be achieved while Riyadh refuses to stop its military aggression against the Yemeni people.
Saudi Arabia have been pounding Yemen since March 26 with main aim of restoring power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and weakening Yemen’s Ansarullah movement.
The Saudi aggression has claimed the lives of about 2,000 people and have displaced over 500,000, the UN says.
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