🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Saudi Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to Yemen, Mohammed Al Jaber about the Houthi-Saudi skirmishes:
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sought, and continues to seek, to support all de-escalation and peace efforts, and to back the efforts of the United Nations Envoy to Yemen to reach a comprehensive political solution that ends the suffering of the Yemeni people. However, the terrorist Houthi militia continues to insist on pursuing the path of escalation and violence instead of the path of de-escalation and peace, in service of external agendas that have no connection to Yemen and do not serve the interests of its people.
This Yemeni militia has turned Yemen into a bargaining chip in the hands of external parties, to be used whenever they wish to achieve their interests at the expense of Yemen's security and stability, and the suffering of its people who languish under the weight of injustice, starvation, and ongoing violations in the areas under its control. It continues to promote false claims and attempts to export its crises and failures abroad, in order to evade responsibility for the humanitarian tragedy it has caused.
The Kingdom will continue, in support of the brotherly Yemeni people, to back all initiatives aimed at reopening Sana'a Airport to commercial flights, thereby enabling Yemenis to travel, after the Houthis worked to prevent flights from operating there under flimsy pretexts. The Kingdom will also continue to support the entry of ships into the ports of Hodeidah to meet the needs of the Yemeni people, even as the Houthi militia persists in its cowardly attacks on civilian commercial ships in the Red Sea, thereby threatening international freedom of navigation and regional security.
Peace will not be achieved through slogans or political maneuvering, but rather through a sincere will that places the interests of Yemen and its people above all considerations, and rejects violence, dependency, and foreign agendas that have prolonged the conflict and exacerbated the suffering of millions.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will remain, as everyone has known it, a supporter of the brotherly Yemeni people throughout all of Yemen, and a backer of its legitimate government, until Yemen enjoys security, stability, and peace.
May God protect the Kingdom and Yemen and its brotherly people from all who wish ill upon them.