French Ambassador to Yemen Jean-Marie Safa called on the Iranian-backed Houthi militias to engage in dialogue that would help end the war in Yemen.
Speaking today, Sunday, at an event in the city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramawt governorate, eastern Yemen, in support of the fish sector, which his country supports with one million euros to the fishermen of the Mukalla city government, in the presence of local government leaders in Hadhramawt, the French ambassador said that the Houthis are their own enemies with crimes and violations against the Yemeni people. Surprised by the militias’ claims that they are with the people and working for the good, but what they are doing is besieging the city of Taiz and firing rockets at densely populated residential areas and civilians and displaced people in Marib and Taiz , in addition to the crimes they commit against women, they recruit children and confiscate land, adding that they are always Houthis, that they are with the people, and they know. On the contrary, he stressed that he gave a lot of advice to the militias to get them involved in the Yemeni political process, noting that the current Houthi trend is leading to hatred among Yemenis and the Houthis should be well aware of this.
The French ambassador confirmed his country’s support for the Presidential Council led by President Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi, as well as the efforts of the UN envoy in Yemen to extend the truce and call for a United States-sponsored Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue. Nations, because dialogue is better and better than weapons and war.
