In letter to UN, Yemen calls for end to blockade, sabotage by US, allies

Yemen has written to the United Nations, calling for an end to over 10 years of blockade of the country and urging cessation of aggressive measures targeting the nation by the US and its allies.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulwahid Abu Ras denounced continuation of the "unjust blockade" in a letter addressed to the UN secretary general and the world body's Security Council, Yemen's official Saba news agency reported on Monday.

Continuation of the blockade, he added, "does not serve international peace and security."

Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched the blockade as part of a full-scale war on March 26, 2015, with military, political, and logistical support from the United States and other Western states.

The war went on to claim the lives of tens of thousands of Yemenis, while consistently falling short of its main objective of restoring power to Yemen's former Riyadh-friendly government.

The government had fled the country amid a power struggle, prompting Yemen's popular resistance Ansarullah movement to start running state affairs.

Following a fragile UN-brokered ceasefire that was clinched in 2022, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Israeli regime waged many rounds of wholesale aggression against Yemen.

The attacks would seek to cripple Sana'a's capability to stage solidarity strikes against Israeli targets in response to Tel Aviv's war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.

According to the Yemeni official, "The continued hostile activities of the United States and its proxies will inflict greater damage on the region, and their consequences will be catastrophic."

"The state of ‘neither war nor peace’ is no longer acceptable under any circumstances."

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