New York, Sept 24, (dpa/GNA) – Yemen has appealed to the international community for stronger support against the Houthi militia.
Vice President of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer, told the UN General Assembly in New York it had been 12 years since “the coup carried out by the terrorist Houthi militia.”
The militia had escalated tensions in the region, turning “one of the world’s most important waterways into a tool of pressure and bargaining in Iran’s confrontation with the world,” he said. “Protecting this strategic waterway is a shared regional and international responsibility, which Yemen cannot shoulder alone,” he said, adding that it was the responsibility of every economy that relied on the security of supply chains, energy and freedom of navigation.
“What we seek from the international community today is not a perpetual management of crises, but a strategic partnership that promotes security, stability and development for the benefit of Yemen, the region and international peace and security.”
Earlier in the day at the UN, 80 states condemned the decision by the pro-Iranian Houthi militia to resume the conflict in Yemen, and their ongoing attacks on Saudi Arabia and in the Red Sea. The Houthi militia recently seized Yemen’s west coast in a lightning offensive, gaining access to the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea.
As the conflict escalates, Saudi Arabia again came under fire from its southern neighbour. The importance of the Bab al-Mandab Strait has increased further as a result of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.
Passage through the Strait of Hormuz has been severely restricted, since the start of the war launched by the US on Iran, and as Tehran seeks to control transit through the strait.
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