News - Yemen: The Supreme Political Council expressed its rejection of any outcomes issued by US President Biden's visit to the region that affect the sovereignty, security and stability of Yemen.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the Council deplored the talk about understandings about extending the truce. It stressed that the truce, which the Saudi-backed side did not commit to implementing its terms, represented a shocking and disappointing experience that cannot be repeated in the future.

Nevertheless, it added, Sana'a is always ready to promote any credible efforts that lead in a guaranteed way to real and practical solutions in the humanitarian and economic aspects.

Saudi Arabia launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms, logistical, and political support from the US and other Western states. Simultaneous with the invasion, the aggressors and their supporters also put the entire country under an all-out land, aerial, and naval blockade.

While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to achieve any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The United Nations brokered a truce between the coalition and Ansarullah, which came into effect in April, and was extended for another two months on June 2.

Throughout the course of the truce, however, Yemen has been reporting repeated breaches by the coalition.

The Supreme Political Council pointed out that continued interference in the country's affairs by aggressive foreign states is the biggest impediment to establishment of peace.

“Peace requires serious will and readiness to take practical steps to end aggression, lift the siege, put an end to occupation, and eliminate all the effects of war,” the council said.

"We have made many initiatives and concessions, but to no avail,” it added. “The Saudi-led aggression continues enforcing the siege and preventing ships from sailing towards Hodeidah port.”

The council expressed surprise at a recent decision by the Saudi government to lift restrictions on “all carriers” using its airspace, in an apparent gesture of openness toward Israel following US President Joe Biden’s pledge to aggressively push for the normalization of relations between Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

The council said, “While [Saudis] open their airspace to the Israeli enemy, they insist, without any justification, to keep our airspace and airports closed.”

These crimes, it said, are being committed before the eyes of an international community, “which collaborates with an enemy that denies all human values as well as all laws and [human rights] declarations.”

The council concluded its statement by blasting the United States for refusing to change its attitude towards Yemen.

“The United States does not intend to change its approach to Yemen and the entire region and, for this reason, our nation and freedom-seeking people of the world condemn the US president’s visit to the region,” it said.

Biden started the tour on Wednesday, visiting the occupied territories and then Saudi Arabia, in what Palestinians and Yemenis have condemned as Washington’s endorsement of Tel Aviv and Riyadh’s atrocities.