GCC: We support efforts to strengthen security and stability in Yemen

GCC Secretary-General Nayef Falah Mubarak al-Hajraf said the GCC supports all efforts to promote security and stability in Yemen.

This came during a meeting with the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Major General Michael Burry of Ireland, Head of the United Nations Mission in Support of the Hodeida Agreement, and Head of the Coordination Committee for Redeployment, on Thursday at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Riyadh.

During the meeting, the Secretary-General stressed the GCC’s support for all efforts aimed at strengthening security and stability in Yemen and achieving development and peace for the Yemeni people, in light of the review of the efforts of the UN mission to follow up the implementation of UN resolutions.

A number of topics of common interest were also discussed.

Earlier, Rashad al-Alimi, chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Command Council, stressed the need to build the army on sound scientific and national foundations, away from cronyism and narrow loyalties.

Gen. Saghir Bin Aziz, the Yemeni army chief of staff, spoke by telephone to “review the progress of military operations on all fronts”, the official Saba agency reported.

Al-Alimi listened to “a detailed explanation from the Yemeni army staff on the progress of military operations on all fronts, the army’s commitment to the ceasefire in implementation of the humanitarian truce announced by the UN envoy to Yemen, as well as the abuses committed by Houthi militias and their violation of the truce declared in all the battlefronts in the provinces of Marib, Al-Jawf, Saada, Hajjah, Hodeida and Taiz”.

“The current phase is exceptional and sensitive, and requires that everyone unite their efforts and stand together to realize the dream of the Yemeni people for a unified and prosperous Yemen where security, stability and prosperity prevail, and to push forward the process of development and start reconstruction”, he said.

“Everyone feels the responsibility we shoulder, which requires everyone to overcome differences and put an end to them in order to push Yemen to safety and get out of this war, which has cast a shadow over the overall situation, especially the economic situation”, he said.