The United Arab Emirates welcomed the Security Council’s adoption today of a resolution renewing the sanctions regime on Yemen, designating the Houthis a “terrorist group” for the first time, including them in the Yemen sanctions list, and imposing an arms embargo on them.
The resolution also condemned the cross-border attacks launched by the terrorist Houthi militia against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and called on the militias to immediately cease hostilities.
“The aim of this resolution is to reduce the military capabilities of the terrorist Houthi militia, reduce the war escalation in Yemen, and prevent their hostility against civilian ships and their threat to shipping lanes and global trade, and putting an end to the suffering of civilians in Yemen and the region in the face of these terrorist attacks,” said Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Political Affairs, Permanent Representative of the UAE.
In recent years, Houthi attacks have become more and more frequent, with air defense teams intercepting rockets and drones almost daily.
With the start of the war in 2015, the Houthis have developed sophisticated drones and missiles. Analysts and officials say that the Iranians and their main proxy, Hezbollah, have aided the Yemeni rebels.
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