News - Yemen: Member of the National Delegation in the Salvation Government Abdulmalik Al-Ajri dismissed the statement of the Security Council, considering it “a condemnation not a binding decision”.

Apparently worried by the Yemeni army’s rapid gains in the battle to liberate the strategic city of Marib, the UN Security Council has called for an urgent ceasefire across Yemen and an end to the army’s advances toward the last stronghold of Saudi-backed mercenaries.

“The statement of the Security Council proves that it is nothing more than a UN agency selling positions to those with influence and money,” Al-Ajri said in a post published on his official Twitter page on Thursday. “Contrary to its message of preserving world peace, it pours oil into the fire of conflict.”
 
He noted that the Security Council is repeating the same mistake with statements that have no meaning other than pouring oil into the fire of war. 

“You should know that our blood is not a commodity for investment, we never waited for protection from you, and the valor of our Army and Committees is enough. Your statements will not prevent us from defending ourselves and Yemen,” Al-Ajari added.

Exhibiting bias in favor of Riyadh, the Council condemned the Sana’a government’s retaliatory attacks against Saudi Arabia, while failing to note that Riyadh initiated the war and has continued to bombard Yemen ever since.

Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has led a war coalition against Yemen to  reinstall the ousted, Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in Sana’a.

The prolonged war, accompanied by a tight siege, has failed to reach its goals, killing hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people while throwing the poorest Middle Eastern country into what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

A day earlier, UNICEF estimated that the protracted war in Yemen has killed or maimed at least 10,000 children, which is equivalent to four children every day.

In recent months, the Saudi-led coalition’s forces have been striving in vain to stop the Yemeni Army’s advances towards Marib city and its retaliatory attacks on Saudi soil.

Sana’a has asserted that its raids on Saudi Arabia are the direct result of the kingdom’s continued aggression against Yemen, pledging to end the attacks as soon as Riyadh and its allies end the war and lift the siege, as a result of which fuel shortages are adding to people's suffering across the Arab country.