Local Editor

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, stressed on Thursday the need for a political solution to the crisis in Yemen, rejecting as unconstructive any measures that would aggravate insecurity in the region. 

Amir-Abdollahian also called for further cooperation among regional nations, stressing the need to foster cooperation among regional Muslim countries.

He made the remarks during a meeting with Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah in Kuwait on Thursday.

The meeting between Amir-Abdollahian and al-Attiyah came on the sidelines of the 42nd meeting of foreign ministers of member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC] in Kuwait.

On the sidelines of the OIC conference, Amir-Abdollahian also held a meeting with Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, during which he expressed Iran’s readiness to send more relief aid to war-hit Yemen.

Amir-Abdollahian also called for implementation of Iran’s four-point peace plan on Yemen, which includes intra-Yemeni dialog, and underlined the need for a UN-sponsored political solution to the crisis in the war-torn country. 

For his part, the Djibouti foreign minister said that his country was ready to receive and deliver further humanitarian aid to Yemen.

He said that Djibouti is now hosting nearly 20,000 Yemenis who have fled the crisis in their country, calling on international bodies to help war-hit Yemenis both in their country and in Djibouti.

According to the UN, about 2,000 people have been killed and more than 500,000 displaced as a result of the crisis in Yemen. 

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against 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 Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.