UNSC resolution on Yemen has negative implications for peace: FM Spokesman

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the UN Security Council resolution on the Yemeni crisis and the language used in it will have negative consequences for the peace process and further the positions of the conflicting parties.

The UN Security Council on Monday, February 28, agreed to extend arms bans against Yemen's Ansarullah and adopted a proposed UAE resolution calling for the extension of arms bans against a number of Ansarullah leaders to the entire group.

Reacting to a recent UN Security Council resolution on the Yemeni crisis, Saeed Khatibzadeh stated on Tuesday: "Unfortunately, this resolution and the language used in it have been adopted under the influence of political considerations and lobbying of the aggressor coalition countries and in the opposite direction of the existing efforts to resume the political process."

He noted that since the beginning of the Yemeni war, the biased and untrue view of Yemen, led by the main supporters of the Yemeni aggression in the UN Security Council, has not only had no effect on reducing the crisis but has continued to prolong the worst human tragedy of the century.

Khatibzadeh pointed out that as a result of ignoring the Saudi coalition's crimes and the Security Council's withdrawal from its inherent duty during the seven years of the cruel war in Yemen, systematic and serious violations of international humanitarian law, the killing of civilians, widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, and illegal siege of ports and airports have increased in the shadow of the international community's silence.

He underlined that the continuation of this approach makes the prospect of achieving lasting and just peace even more difficult and complicated.

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