Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf held on Wednesday the Security Council responsible for holding the Saudi government and its arms suppliers accountable in accordance with international law.

This came in a letter sent by the Minister to the President of the Security Council for the month of Dec. 2021, Ambassador Abdo Abadi, and the members of the Council and the five permanent members, to clarify and expose the falseness of the allegations contained in the Saudi letter to the Security Council on Dec 28.

Minister Sharaf urged the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security, including the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf region, and to take a number of basic steps that will pave the way for peace, foremost of which is stopping Saudi Arabia’s continuous threats and its daily indiscriminate bombing of civilian objects in Yemen, on allegations that they are “targets.” legitimate military”, as well as protecting the Yemeni people from the terrorism and crimes of the Riyadh government and its allies.

He explained Riyadh tried to appear before the world as the victim to gain the sympathy of the international community and lament over the violation of international law, as if the international community, all global media and international organizations had no idea or knowledge that Riyadh is leading a military coalition that includes more than 17 countries, and is waging an absurd war and imposing a comprehensive siege on Yemen since March 26, 2015, which led to the worst man-made humanitarian disaster in the modern era.

The Minister explained that there are clear and well-known facts about the war on Yemen that cannot be hidden, but Riyadh was the one who launched its barbaric military aggression and randomly bombed all Yemeni provinces with the latest types of military fighters, missiles and ammunition, including the internationally prohibited weapons.

In the letter, the Foreign Minister said: “It is strange that the Security Council and the international community do not condemn the crimes committed by the Saudi state of aggression on an ongoing basis, but when Sana’a exercises its natural right guaranteed by international law, the Charter of the United Nations and all heavenly laws in self-defense and for the Yemeni people and responding to Saudi war crimes by targeting Saudi military sites and economic facilities that finance the war with a limited number of missiles that were developed internally, the world agitates and condemns and condone what Riyadh and its air force are doing.

The Foreign Minister’s message to the Security Council indicated that the Saudi aggression country is working to transfer its problems and political differences with a number of countries in the region, including with the Islamic Republic of Iran, to Yemen and is trying to display its strength and make Yemen an arena for settling its differences at the expense of the Yemeni people.

He pointed out that Riyadh is working directly, through militias and outlaw armed groups that it funds with weapons and equipment, to obstruct any efforts to bring peace to Yemen, insisting on imposing a peace that it has chosen for itself according to Saudi conditions, without taking into account the humanitarian catastrophe it has caused in Yemen.

Minister Sharaf affirmed that the Salvation Government and the national political forces in Sanaa reject the attempts of Saudi hegemony over Yemen, but welcome the just and honorable peace of the Yemeni people, which brings together all political forces in favor of Yemen.

The letter reiterated Sanaa's clear position by calling on Saudi Arabia and those allied with it to review their positions and realize that their calculations in Yemen are wrong, and for Riyadh to realize that peace and a comprehensive political solution for the benefit of the Yemeni people in the first place and the key to re-normalizing life in Yemen and establishing good neighborly relations.

He stated that this matter requires goodwill and urgent and necessary measures to pave the way for peaceful political peace negotiations, the basis of which is stopping the war in all Yemeni lands and islands, taking practical steps to withdraw any foreign forces from the territory of the Republic of Yemen, reopening Sana'a International Airport to commercial and civil flights, and not obstructing the entry of ships loaded with oil derivatives, domestic gas and commercial goods to the port of Hodeida, arranging for the re-disbursement of public service salaries and providing the necessary support to the Yemeni economy.

The Foreign Minister called on the Security Council to adopt a clear stance towards peace, by issuing a new resolution binding on all, calling for an end to the war and lifting the comprehensive siege, and to take a brave and decisive stance that calls for peace by inviting the Salvation Government in Sana’a to present its position on the ongoing war .

Source: Yemen News Agency