Foreign Minister affirms seriousness of Sanaa in moving towards just peace
SANAA, May 21 (YPA) – Foreign Minister, Hisham Sharaf Abdullah, on Thursday held a closed-circuit television meeting with the Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee of the European Parliament, Maria Arena.
At the meeting, Foreign Minister reviewed the suffering of the Yemeni people for the seventh year sequentially as due to a barbaric military aggression and an unjust blockade that is incompatible with any legislative or legal basis for any international treaty, convention and law, including Security Council resolution 2216.
Minister Sharaf explained that the US-backed Saudi-UAE coalition of aggression violated all fundamental human rights principles and divine laws and targeting and killing civilians, especially women, children and the elderly, and destroying all economic resources and infrastructure of the Yemeni people, including health, education, water and electricity.
He also expressed his appreciation for the resolution of the European Parliament adopted last February affirming that there is no military solution in Yemen.
The European Parliament also called for an end to the war and the lifting of the blockade with a view to achieve a comprehensive and sustainable political settlement, and a complete withdrawal of foreign forces on Yemeni territory and islands.
“The political leadership in Sanaa, represented by the Supreme Political Council and the Government of National Salvation, was serious about moving towards a just peace,” he affirmed .
Foreign Minister stressed that any peace process towards a just peace, to be preceded by a number of basic humanitarian steps and the strengthening of confidence through a ceasefire and the lifting of the blockades on the port of Hodeidah and Sanaa International Airport, thereby creating a climate conducive to the success of political negotiations.
He noted that the financiers of aggression must stop funding their proxies in order to have a successful peaceful political settlement
In her part, Maria Arena stressed the importance of a peaceful political solution as the only solution to face the repercussions of the humanitarian disaster in Republic of Yemen.
The European Parliament does not accept military escalation in the Palestinian territories and stresses the need to return to the negotiating table.
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