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The head of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, described the US Senate’s decision to vote to halt support for the Saudi-led coalition Bombing Yemen as “positive”.
“It has become clear to the whole world that their aggression is illegal,” al-Houthi said in a Twitter post on Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to end Washington’s support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, as lawmakers push President Donald Trump to toughen his policy toward the kingdom.
“Putting the decision to a vote represents a scandal for the [Saudi-led] aggression,” the Yemeni leader added.
He also called on other countries to take a “stronger stance than the Senate’s”, adding that laws don’t only consider the aggression as illegitimate but also “oppression and starving the Yemeni people due to the American, British, Israeli, Saudi and Emirati hegemony over Yemen.”
The vote on the war powers resolution will be the second within four months in the Senate. The chamber passed the measure by 56-41 in December, a rebuke of Trump amid anger at Saudi Arabia over civilian deaths in Yemen and the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
To become effective, however, the resolution must be passed by the new Senate, which was seated in January, as well as the House of Representatives. Then it must garner enough votes to override an expected veto by Trump, who has touted the importance of a strategic alliance with Riyadh.
The House passed its own version of the resolution in February, but a procedural issue kept it from a vote in the Senate.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
