Russia calls on international community to condemn the US-British aggression on Yemen

The US and British strikes on Yemen are an obvious armed aggression and constitute a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said on Friday.

“The situation is crystal clear. Actions of the so-called coalition are in breach of Article 2 of the UN Charter. This is another military aggression of the collective West to add to the lengthy list of their `raids’ against the long-suffering Middle East,” the Russian envoy told a UN Security Council meeting that discussed the strikes delivered by the United States and Great Britain against Yemen.

According to Nebenzya, the White House’s “pseudo-legal justifications do not stand up to any criticism.”

Nor have the strikes on Yemen anything to do with the right to self-defense, he added. “Besides, there was no authorization by the UN Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter to use force,” he lamented.

Thursday night, the United States and the United Kingdom delivered air strikes on positions in several Yemeni cities, using aircraft, warships and submarines.

Nebenzia called on the UN Security Council during the session to quickly demand a ceasefire in Gaza Strip, considering that the continuation of the Israeli aggression may plunge the entire region into a wide-scale war with global consequences.

Hamda Mustafa