The United Arab Emirates called on the international community to “take serious and decisive steps to exert meaningful pressure on the Houthi group” in Yemen, according to a statement by the Minister of State, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Nahyan Al Nahyan.
And in the statement you published, Emirates News Agency Official official (WAM), and Shakhbut bin Nahyan called on the international community to “think about the reasons that led to this deteriorating situation in Yemen, one of the most important of which is the Houthi terrorist group’s rejection of any political settlement and its refusal to sit with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.. It also refuses to Accepting the fact that the only way to achieve peace is through negotiations.”
This came during the Emirati minister’s participation in a high-level meeting hosted by Switzerland, Sweden and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to support the humanitarian situation in Yemen, with the participation of a number of representatives of donors, UN and intergovernmental organizations.
The Gulf Cooperation Council is studying sending official invitations to the parties in Yemen within days to hold talks on the military, political and economic aspects of the war between the Iran-allied Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition, according to Firas Press Agency.
In response, the rebels in Yemen announced, Thursday, their refusal to participate in a dialogue to resolve the conflict being held in Saudi Arabia, according to what a source in the Houthi group told AFP, despite their acceptance of negotiations on neutral territory.
In his speech during the meeting, Shakhbut bin Nahyan indicated that the UAE supports “the efforts of the United Nations to provide the basic needs of the Yemeni people,” stressing that “the UAE wishes to work alongside the concerned parties and international partners to support the efforts made towards advancing the means of recovery and development for the Yemeni people in The critical humanitarian situation remained,” according to the agency.
The statement confirmed that the UAE has provided aid to Yemen worth more than $6.3 billion since 2015, the year in which a Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen a year after the Houthi control of large parts of Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.
Millions of Yemenis need help. The United Nations expressed its disappointment after a donors’ conference for Yemen, held on Wednesday, raised less than a third of the required amount, which the organization says is needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe for the country.
The United Nations had called during the conference to raise $4.27 billion to help 17.3 million people in Yemen, but the total pledged by donors at the end of the conference was limited to $1.3 billion.
In addition, Shakhbut bin Nahyan praised “the United Nations Security Council’s inclusion of the Houthi group as a terrorist group, in addition to the United Nations team of experts documenting many of its abuses and violations.”
The UAE was subjected to attacks, one of which was fatal, last January, which were claimed by the Houthi rebels, who are supported by Iran.