[22/08/2017 09:23]

NY-SABA
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Yemen Mohammed Saeed Al Jaber has affirmed his country's support to the United Nations' efforts for Yemen peace, the latest of which was the UN proposal concerning the Red Sea port of Hodeida.

Al Jaber was delivering a keynote speech in the "Partners for a Sustainable Peace in Yemen", a seminar held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday.

He said: "Resolving the Yemen crisis politically requires first a Saleh and Houthi belief in the political solution, laydown of arms and giving up on the idea of using force to achieve their political goals."

Al Jaber highlighted the depth of the Yemeni Saudi relations recalling the fact that Saudi Arabia has underpinned Yemen's economy the most in the past 30 years.

He emphasized the imperative of political solution in Yemen, an approach Saudi Arabia set out on since the political stalemate of 2011; Proposing the GCC brokered Initiative.

Al Jaber said the current crisis is simply "a small Yemeni constituent's takeover of power, backed by Iran and allied with the ex-president, in an armed dissent against what all the Yemeni people unanimously agreed upon."

The militia, he said, dashed the hopes of Yemenis and undermined the security and stability of Yemen and the whole region.

"A political solution that rests on the three references - the GCC Initiative, the National Dialogue outcomes and the UNSC resolution no. 2216 – will restore to the world part of its security and stability.

And will make Yemen happy again under an all-inclusive government that resuscitates the state institutions and reconstructs Yemen."

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