The designation of Houthi as a terrorist group by the Security Council is a victory for Emirati diplomacy
The Houthi-led militias, and the mullahs’ regime in Iran, have been dealt a heavy blow over the past few days, following the UN Security Council’s decision to designate Houthi militia a terrorist group and at the same time a victory for UAE diplomacy.
The Security Council adopted the UAE-proposed resolution, designating the Houthi militia a terrorist group and imposing an arms embargo on them. The resolution expands the UN arms embargo on several Houthi leaders to the entire movement.
The decision to ban the arming of Houthi militias by the UN Security Council is the fruit of UAE diplomatic efforts to delimit the terrorism of drones and ballistic missiles and to unite international will as a necessity to dry up the sources of weapons.
Observers said that imposing an arms embargo on the militias, as a result of the UAE proposal, puts an end to Houthi terrorism. It reflects the strong diplomacy of the United Arab Emirates, aimed at curbing the coup politically and exposing its crimes and the reality of its destructive and expansionist Iranian project in the region.
Terrorist Group
This decision is a victory for Emirati diplomacy and a victory for Yemenis, and the Houthis should be treated as a terrorist group to end the war in Yemen. “The UN charter calls for the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of despicable terrorist acts to be held accountable and brought to justice”, said Abdul Sattar al-Shamiri, a Yemeni political analyst.
He pointed out that this decision comes at a very sensitive and important time, which forces the militias into a narrow corner, noting that this decision is not enough to be welcomed by the Yemeni side and the Yemeni government as much as it requires other parallel measures. He explained that all the attacks carried out by this terrorist group against civilian objects in liberated areas or outside Yemen’s borders, and in international territorial waters, are terrorist acts and require a serious stance from the international community.
Cooperation to eliminate terrorist entity
Arab affairs specialist Dr. Hamed Fares said: This decision comes as a major victory for the United Arab Emirates against the terrorist militia and its threat to the region. It is necessary to urge all countries to cooperate effectively with the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen and the Yemeni government to eliminate the terrorist entity, he said.
Fares said the UAE continues to triumph over the Arab project militarily and diplomatically in the face of the terrorism project that the Iranian regime issued to Yemen and turned it into a platform to threaten the interests of the world and neighboring countries.
This decision will put all arms smuggling networks of Houthi militias under the Security Council’s purview, and along the path of broad international sanctions, which could establish a solid legal basis for stronger military action on the ground to dry up Houthi terrorism in Yemen, he said.
He explained that the international community is aware of the danger of these militias, and that they have become a threat to international peace and world trade in general. We have noted this through the violations they have committed in international waters, the most recent of which was the piracy of the Emirati commercial ship Rawabi. This decision came as the biggest response and victory from the United Arab Emirates and the extent of its foreign moves to protect the region from the threat of these terrorist militias.
Reasons for Terrorist Designation
In its resolution 2624, the UN Security Council revealed the reasons for designating the Houthis as a “terrorist group” for the first time. It said: The Houthi group has launched cross-border attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, demanding an immediate halt to such attacks.
He also stressed that the Houthis have committed a wide range of violations against Yemenis and the international community, including attacks on civilians, the use of sexual violence, the recruitment and use of children, the use of landmines, and obstruction of humanitarian access.
The resolution highlighted the Houthis’ attacks on commercial cargo ships in the Red Sea and the repeated terrorist attacks they carried out across the border, confirming the transfer of Houthi weapons from outside Yemen in contravention of the UN arms embargo on Yemen, and calling on member states to intensify efforts to combat the smuggling of weapons and their components by land and sea.
