Iranian FM Calls on OIC Member States to Carry out Humanitarian, Muslim Duties toward Yemeni Crisis
Local Editor
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, called on the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation [OIC] to carry out their humanitarian and Muslim duties towards the Yemeni crisis, as he said in the OIC meeting on Tuesday.
Abdollahian expressed outrage at the indiscriminate Saudi bombardment of civilian targets in Yemen and the deliberate destruction of infrastructure of the great Yemeni nation.
Meanwhile, he was absent when former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, was delivering a speech to the meeting of the OIC.
In Abdollahian’s speech, he said that the Yemeni nation is in dire need of national solidarity.
He rebuked the Saudi government for gross violation of the United Nations [UN] Charter by perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yemen.
He said that the international community must respect Yemeni national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Elaborating on Iran’s four-point peace plan about Yemen, Abdollahian called for an immediate halt to aggressions on innocent people of Yemen and on putting an end to the siege on the country, especially on the eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Abdollahian voiced Iran’s support for peace talks between different Yemeni groups in Geneva in Switzerland, hailing efforts made by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoy on Yemen in this regard.
He also called on the OIC member states to carry out their humanitarian and Muslim duties towards the Yemeni crisis.
Additionally, Abdollahian said that the Saudi government jeopardized the international peace by committing war of aggression on Yemen.
He underlined that resorting to military methods for solving the Yemeni crisis is wrong and its outcome will be nothing but fueling extremism and terrorism and endangering regional security.
Abdollahian is currently on a visit to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to attend the OIC meeting and take part in high-level talks attended by senior officials from Muslim countries on the ongoing conflict in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansoaur Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
