Yemeni Presidential Council calls on international community to take firm stance against Houthis
The international community’s condemnations of Houthi targeting of ships and blocking oil exports are not enough, a member of Yemen’s presidential council said.
In a meeting with the Dutch ambassador to Yemen, Peter-Derrek Hof, today in Jordan, Othman Majli, a member of the Presidential Command Council, said that the Presidential Command Council dealt with the proposals made by the United Nations envoy with national responsibility in order to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people who are patient with the injustice and brutality of the militias. The council made real concessions and agreed to travel citizens using passports issued from Sanaa, despite its knowledge of their misuse by the Houthi militias, according to the official news agency Saba’.
“The council agreed to open Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport, and demanded the opening of roads and all measures that take into consideration the rights of citizens were approved for the peace that the Yemeni people seek, but the Houthi terrorist militia continued its aggression against our people using smuggled Iranian missiles and planes, and misunderstood the truce, bombing oil export facilities in al-Dabba port in Hadramaut province and other sites in Shabwa province and economic installations.
The international community has been lenient with the Houthi aggression and the attacks of its terrorist militias against our people throughout the war, he said, adding that the Houthi militias have looted financial resources, seized all state resources, imposed levies, issued execution orders against the Yemeni people in bulk, and recently issued unjust death sentences against a number of Saada residents. They have also worked to impose a “code of conduct” in order to blackmail innocent people, steal employees’ salaries and turn them into slaves or employees who run them, and judge them as they please, he added.
“We have taken practical steps to classify the Houthis as a terrorist group, and we call on the international community, and the UN and US envoys to fulfill their duty and take clear actions, because condemnations are not enough in the face of provocative steps by militias, besieging civilians and targeting ships to prevent the export of oil,” he said, adding that Houthi’s escalatory demands are not in the interest of the Yemeni people, but rather serve the Iranian agenda, and act according to its directives, in exchange for the support it provides through the smuggling of weapons and drugs, taking advantage of the state of war and international inaction to curb Iranian Houthi terrorism.
