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The Republic of Yemen rejected any attempt to link the national duties of the Yemeni army and popular forces in defending the country against Saudi-led aggression coalition with any U.S.-Saudi dispute with Iran, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry said in a press statement received by the state-run news agency Saba on Thursday.
Commenting to the White House’s statement on Wednesday regarding Iran’s latest missile test and attempts to link it with the Yemeni army’s shelling against a Saudi warship, the ministry said that “such a statement and other remarks made by senior officials in the U.S. administration contained false facts in an apparent and botched attempt to link Yemen’s self-defense and protection of its coasts and land against the Saudi aggression war with the U.S.-Iranian dispute.”
“The attempts seek to find any justification for a number of international powers to intervene in the Red Sea and the Yemeni coasts and land,” read the statement.
The ministry expressed confidence that the new U.S. administration knows well that the Republic of Yemen calls for peace, stability and supports all efforts to fight terrorism and financiers in the region and world, adding that Yemen is keen on the security and safety of the waterways and the navigation lines in the southern Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait.
The ministry said that “any attempt to impose a military intervention in the area will not work,” making clear that the safety, security and stability of waterways are linked to the “immediate end to the Saudi-led aggression war and their all-out blockade against the Yemeni people.”
The statement stressed that Yemen welcomes all peace efforts to achieve a political settlement and regain peace to the whole region.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
