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The Head of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committees (SRC), Mohammed Ali al-Houthi praised the Dutch government’s decision to halt its arms export to several Arab states.
“A positive stance made by the Foreign Trade and Development Minister [Sigrid Kaag],” wrote al-Houthi in a Twitter post.
The Netherlands announced Friday that it will cease arms exports to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt in protest against the use of the weapons in Yemen.
“There will be no arms exports from the Netherlands to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE unless it is proven that they will not be used in the Yemen war,” said Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Minister Sigrid Kaag.
The official said the Dutch government has tightened its conditions on arms exports in order to prevent their use in the war in Yemen.
She pointed out that the “restrictive conditions for the export of weapons applied to Saudi Arabia” has been expanded to include Egypt and the UAE.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are part of an Arab coalition bombing Yemen since 2015 to forcefully reinstate former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. However, the UAE has been found to be backing the Southern Transitional Council in an effort to split Yemen in to two countries, North and South, contrary to the objectives of the coalition.
According to UN officials, more than 10,000 people have been killed in the war, while more than 11 per cent of the country’s population has been displaced.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
