SANA’A (Dispatches) – The prime minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government has blamed Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the deterioration of security situation in areas under the occupation of the Saudi-led coalition forces and their allied militants, saying the two countries are trying to perpetuate chaos, devastation and destruction in those regions.
During a meeting with the governor of the southern provinces of Aden and Mahra, Tariq Salam and al-Qatabi Ali Hussein al-Faraj respectively, in the capital Sana’a on Saturday, PM Abdulaziz bin Habtoor stated that the Riyadh and Abu Dhabi regimes are doing all they can to prolong their occupation, plunder Yemen’s national resources and exploit the country’s strategic islands and coasts to serve the interests of the Zionist regime, the United States and Britain.
He stressed that Yemen, given its great history of resistance against invaders and occupiers, is capable of expelling new occupiers and ensuring its security, sovereignty, safety and territorial integrity.
The meeting also focused on the situation in the occupied southern Yemeni provinces in light of the ongoing discord and divisions among mercenaries, and the disastrous repercussions that the long-standing disputes have had on the security and livelihood of the local people.
The Yemeni officials also discussed recruitment and mobilization of Takfiri militants by the Saudi-led coalition, stressing that it clearly indicates the imminence of an upcoming armed conflict on the one hand, and the continuation of the extremists’ hostile and arbitrary measures against Yemeni people on the other.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and other Western states.
The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.