FM :Yemen Doesn’t Accept Tutelage of Any Regional or International Powers
Statements of Saudi ambassador to Jordan is a media attempt by the Saudi regime to flirt with the New US administration, Yemen’s Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf said on Wednesday.
The minister said that the ambassador’s statements to the Russian Sputnik News Agency is a failed attempt to show that Riyadh was and is still able to play the role of the assigned policeman in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf to implement the policies of the US administration and its NATO allies.
He pointed out that the only success achieved by the Saudi-led international military coalition against Yemen in six years was in using the latest types of American and Western military arsenals, including internationally banned arsenals to kill women, children and elderly civilians in Yemen. It also destroyed the people’s infrastructure, creating the largest humanitarian disaster in the modern era.
Minister Sharaf confirmed that Riyadh’s continued claims of fighting the Iranian influence in Yemen no longer deceived anyone, including many countries that participated or supported the Saudi-Emirati aggression.
“During six years of aggression under the name of reinstating legitimacy that has no basis or existence, Saudi Arabia and UAE have practiced all forms of starvation policy like blockade, destroying the economy and the national currency, detaining oil ships and closing Sana’a airport,” he said. “The aggression countries were unable to prove the validity of its claims to prevent the smuggling of Iranian weapons to Yemen.”
Minister Sharaf advised the Saudi leadership to recognize its mistakes in Yemen, stressing that Yemen does not accept any tutelage whatever its source and does not depend on any regional or international powers.
He also advised Riyadh’s rulers not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Yemeni people.
He indicated that the security and stability of the region require peaceful coexistence and openness to neighboring countries as well as search for ways to strengthen and develop bilateral relations among them, instead of talking about the Iranian threat to the countries of the region.
Riyadh’s rulers should learn from Tehran, which has called for the security and stability of the region by launching an initiative to maintain the security and stability of the Gulf through the Hormuz Peace Initiative that aims to stabilize the Gulf region, he added.
Minister Sharaf said that the Yemeni people are seeking to achieve their legitimate aspirations, first and foremost ending the military aggression, lifting the blockade and withdrawing all foreign forces and mercenaries loyal to the coalition countries from all Yemeni territories and islands.
He added that Yemen does not need the series of false aid the Saudi regime declares to the world that it provides to Yemen at a time its warplanes are killing the Yemeni people.
Sharaf reaffirmed that Sana’a is still extending its hand towards a just peace and achieving a comprehensive settlement that includes all the Yemeni people.