Sana'a: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates renewed Yemen's commitment to the security and safety of international navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Ministry clarified that Yemen pursues a policy based on respect for international law and the protection of maritime passages, within the principles of good neighborliness, joint cooperation, and collective security of the region's states.
The statement emphasized that the security of the Red Sea and the safe passage of international navigation therein is the responsibility of the littoral states. Strengthening maritime security and safeguarding waterways in the region requires the withdrawal of foreign military fleets whose presence is illegitimate, as they pose a threat to the national security of regional states.
The statement also noted that some countries, notably the United States and the United Kingdom, have militarized the Red Sea and turned it into a theater of conflict. They have attempted to form alliances that do not serve the interests of the peoples of the region or the littoral states, but rather their own interests and those of their allies. These efforts, the Ministry stated, have ended in failure, and any new alliances would meet the same fate.
The Ministry affirmed that Sana'a has demonstrated to the international community that its operations in the Red Sea target the Israeli entity and its interests, as a means of pressure to stop its crimes of extermination, starvation, and siege against the brothers and sisters in Gaza. This stance reflects Yemen's principled religious, moral, and humanitarian position in supporting and assisting the Palestinian people until the atrocities they face-among the most heinous in history-are halted.
The Ministry added that Yemen's position is fully in line with international law, which grants states the right to support just causes and confront injustice and occupation, especially when the international community fails to fulfill its role and international organizations, including the United Nations and the Security Council, evade their responsibilities in this regard.
Finally, the Ministry reiterated its rejection of the presence of foreign forces in the Red Sea, stressing that the Yemeni Armed Forces are capable of protecting and securing Yemen's islands and territorial waters. It called on the international community, if genuinely concerned about maritime security and international navigation in the Red Sea, to address the root cause of the current escalation and exert real and serious pressure to stop the crimes of genocide committed by the Israeli entity in Gaza and to lift the siege on the Palestinian people.