News - Yemen: Yemeni Foreign Minister sent messages to foreign ministers of world countries and heads of international and regional organizations, on the 7th anniversary of the US-Saudi military aggression and the comprehensive siege on Yemen.

Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah clarified in his messages that the aggression, since the first day on March 26, 2015, has committed war crimes, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, the Charter of the United Nations and related treaties and conventions.

He pointed out that the aggression targeted the Yemeni citizen and state and worked to increase the suffering of the citizen on a daily basis by following a systematic policy of starvation represented in preventing and obstructing the entry of fuel tankers through the port of Hodeidah, the continued closure of Sana’a International Airport and manipulation and speculation in the Yemen currency. 

He reminded that the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations have called the humanitarian situation in Yemen the worst man-made catastrophe the modern world has known.

The foreign minister affirmed that the US-Saudi-UAE aggression coalition continues its crimes in Yemen because of the double standards policy practiced by the international community.

He said, "The reasons announced by the US-Saudi aggression for its intervention in Yemen to restore what he called ‘legitimacy’ fell from the first day, with the escape of all those claiming legitimacy ”pro-aggression government” to countries of aggression and conspiracy against Yemen”.

 “With the passage of each day of aggression it becomes clear that the aggression came to destroy Yemen's capabilities and social fabric, occupy its islands and ports, plunder its wealth, attempt to infringe on national sovereignty and rob the Yemeni decision,” he added.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, claiming the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The US-Saudi aggression continues to target neighborhoods and populated areas and destroy the infrastructure and capabilities of the country, in light of a suspicious international silence.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.