[07/03/2024 07:17]

ADEN - SABA
Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muamar al-Eryani has said Houthi terrorist militia's attack on ship M/V True Confidence and killed three of its crew members hours after sinking Rubymar cargo ship is an unprecedented escalation in the series of the terrorist attacks the militia waged during November 2023 and targeting international navigation.

" The attack on the Liberia- owned ship and flying the flag of Barbados, with a multinational crew on board, including 15 Filipinos, four Vietnamese, two Sri Lankans, one Indian, and one Nepalese, while passing through the Gulf of Aden, resulted in the killing of three of them and the injury of four others," said al-Eryani in a statement on Thursday.
The attack caused significant damage to the vessel, he said.

"This reveals the nature of the Houthi militia as a "terrorist organization" that disregards international laws and conventions, and acts as a natural tool for implementing the Iranian agenda and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, regardless of national interests, political, economic, and humanitarian conditions in Yemen," he added.
Al-Eryani pointed out that this dangerous escalation confirms the failure of the international community to deal with the serious threats to maritime navigation, and the need to reconsider ways to confront Iran's destabilizing activities for the security and stability of the region and the world, and to deter its sectarian arms, foremost among them the Houthi militia.

Al-Eryani affirmed that the Houthi terrorist militias continue to mislead the Yemeni and Arab public opinion by attempting to link acts of maritime piracy and attacks on commercial vessels and oil tankers in international shipping lines in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden to the events taking place in the occupied Palestinian territories and the support for Gaza, despite the fact that the targeted vessel has no connection to Israel, its operators, crew, cargo, or destination, nor even with the United States and Britain.

He called on the international community to provide a coordinated response to confront the activities of the Houthi militia, which threatens regional and international security and peace, by immediately classifying it as a "terrorist organization" and by drying up its financial, political, and media resources.

He also called for taking parallel measures to provide real support to the Presidential Council and the government in the political, economic, and military aspects to restore the state and impose its control over the entire Yemeni territory.

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