President al-Alimi calls on EU to move from crisis management to eliminating Houthi threat, strengthening security, economic partnership

MUNICH-SABA
His Excellency President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) met with the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaya Kallas, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

They conferred over bilateral cooperation and partnership relations, developments in the Yemeni national arena and the needed European support to sustain the government’s efforts aimed at restoring recovery, sustaining basic services and deterring the terrorist threat.

The President praised the EU’s stance as one of the largest donors to Yemen, both humanitarian and developmental.
He confirmed that the relationship with EU countries has taken on a strategic dimension that intersects with the security of international navigation, the stability of energy and trade supplies, combating terrorism, and limiting the influence of the Iranian regime through its armed proxies.

The President highly praised the decision to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization and the role of Operation Abyad in containing the Houthi threat to international navigation.

He stated that he is looking forward to moving to a stage of completely eliminating the threat.

The Chairman of the PLC touched upon developments on the national front and the progress made with sincere support from in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in terms of unifying the security and military leadership, forming a new government and embarking on the implementation of a reform program focusing on the regularity of services, financial discipline and restoring local and international confidence.

He made it clear that that these transformations refute claims of a security vacuum after completing parallel arrangements, saying that a real vacuum arises when there are multiple sources of decision-making and when the state’s exclusive authorities are contested.

President al-Alimi confirmed that unifying security decisions enhances the effectiveness of combating terrorism, improves services, dries up the environment of extremism and protects human rights, starting with the closure of secret prisons.

The Chairman of the urged the EU to move from the stage of managing the crisis to participating in ending it, noting that the Houthi militias have used the Red Sea as a pressure card, and that any laxity could open the way for the threat to extend to the Arabian Sea.