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For the first time since his resignation as UN envoy to Yemen, the Moroccan diplomat Gamal Benamer expressed his silence to accuse Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates directly and explicitly of undermining the political solution in Yemen and launched a deliberate campaign against him in retaliation for his opposition to the war in Yemen and his efforts to bring the Yemeni parties closer , And an attempt to end the crisis of the blockade of Qatar peacefully.
“Some leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), including a neighboring country that did not allow women to drive, were not satisfied with the possibility of Yemen becoming a democratic government,” Benamer said in a written statement to the South District Court of New York. , Because democracy in Yemen means political competition and not knowing the results in advance. Instead, the UAE and some Saudi leaders wanted to have the final say on who governs Yemen. “
“Catastrophic decision”
He repeated what he had hinted at in his last report to the Security Council in April 2015. He said that the war launched by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with the participation of other countries such as Bahrain, Qatar and Morocco had spoiled the negotiations that he was mediating and which was about to reach a political solution between all parties Yemenis. He said he had rejected “all foreign interference in Yemeni affairs” and warned of “the catastrophic consequences of the hasty decision to go to war”, saying the former UN secretary-general had supported the situation while Saudi Arabia and the UAE had strongly criticized it. “I refused to back down from a principled position in line with international law and Security Council resolutions and preferred to resign from my position,” Benemar added.
“It was clear to all after four years that the decision to launch the war was catastrophic, leaving behind the deaths of more than 10 thousand civilians, and allowed the commission of war crimes on a large scale, and put Yemen on the brink of the worst famine and the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world today. Benemar criticized what he called the organized campaign against him by Saudi Arabia and the UAE through their written and visual platforms, in order to distort his reputation and misrepresent him as biased towards one of the parties to the Yemeni crisis, although his long career attests to him “impartiality and integrity and upholding the values and principles of the United Nations.”
Benemar is being sued by Republican collector Elliott Broidy for his personal e-mail and distribution of content to the US press. He is one of 84 US and Qatari figures to be sued by the Republican after his e-mail was hacked.
Source: Veterans Today
