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Saudi Arabia: The international expert group is biased towards the Houthis

English - Thursday 16 September 2021 الساعة 05:37 pm

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Aden, NewsYemen:

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia rejected the mandate of the Group of Eminent International Experts in Yemen, describing its reports as "politicised, misleading and from unreliable sources", contributing to deepening the crisis in the country.

Saudi Arabia's permanent representative in Geneva, Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, said during the interactive dialogue session to discuss the oral briefing of the Security Council's panel of experts, that his country believes that the solution in Yemen must be (Yemeni-Yemeni) in the first place.

He added that the solution should be "in accordance with relevant regional and international initiatives, including the Kingdom's recent initiative to cease fire and resume dialogue, and not through politicized interventions and misleading reports that deepen the crisis," according to the official Saudi Press Agency, "SPA".

The Saudi official confirmed, "The kingdom's position rejecting the mandate of this team and its failure to recognize the politicized reports it issues, and the outcomes it reached through biased tools and unreliable sources," noting that "the team's practices and reports certainly indicate a lack of impartiality."

He said that the Kingdom was subjected to missile attacks by the Houthis targeting citizens and vital infrastructure, but the team stated that these attacks are of a military nature.

Al-Wasel accused the UN team of encouraging the Houthis to continue their coup by monitoring them biasedly, and ignoring the reference to Security Council Resolution 2216 in all its reports, calling on the Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to hold the team accountable.