FM: UAE uses its membership to impose its positions in Security Council

SANAA, March 02 (YPA) – Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf on Wednesday condemned the provocative style and new language contained in the Security Council’s Resolution No. 2624 of 2022.

“Instead of the Security Council’s decision being procedural, as it was in previous years, but it, thanks to the temporary membership in the Security Council of one of the aggressor countries, turned into a resolution that serves the interests of the coalition countries under the umbrella of the Council,” Sharaf said in a statement.

The Foreign Minister considered this decision a precedent in the history of the UN Security Council. “It is shameful and ironic that one of the aggressors against Yemen has adopted the issuance of a new sanctions resolution on Yemen.”

The Security Council turned from its entrusted role in maintaining international peace and security to serve those whose suspicious and criminal role the whole world knows in destroying Yemen and causing millions of Yemenis to suffer during the past seven years, he added.

Sharaf explained that the paragraphs of the Council’s recent resolution on the situation in Yemen are a clear violation of the purposes of the United Nations Charter, which affirms the natural right of peoples to self-defense.

The Foreign Minister stressed that “the targeting of the military and vital facilities belonging to the Saudi-Emirati aggression countries by Sanaa forces is a natural response to the war crimes and genocide committed by those countries in Yemen since March 26, 2015.”

He expressed his surprise at the double standards of the Security Council Resolution No. 2624 in describing self-defense operations as terrorist attacks, affirming that this measure came as a result of the UAE’s non-permanent membership in the Security Council, which it began using to impose its positions.

Sharaf called on the UN Security Council to review its real role in maintaining global peace and security, and not representing the interests of the powerful and rich countries, and to continue supporting efforts to reach a just, peaceful political settlement that addresses the repercussions of the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen caused by the operations of the aggression coalition.

YPA