News - Yemen: The seat of Yemen in the United Nations is still vacant, President Mahdi Al-Mashat confirmed on Sunday, stressing that whoever occupies that seat does not represent the interests of the Yemeni people.

“The United Nations continues to commit a grave mistake in recognizing an unreal legitimacy that does not exist along the map of Yemen,” President Mahdi al-Mashat said in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the anniversary of United Nations Day

He called on the United Nations to undo its mistakes in Yemen, stressing that continued cooperation with it does not absolve it from bearing responsibility for its mistakes.

The President stressed that the recent Security Council statement was unsuccessful and biased towards the aggressor. He considered that the non-renewal of the United Nations Group of Experts is evidence of the United Nations being subject to the hegemony of the aggressor and money, which will eventually lose its value to the peoples of the world.

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.

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.

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.

 

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