Minister of Foreign Affairs Hisham Sharaf has affirmed that the time for Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemeni affairs, its terms and the attempt to guardianship it is over.
The foreign minister said the peace Sana’a is working to achieve is a real, just and sustainable peace for Yemen and its people within a Yemeni sovereign framework that culminates in the departure of foreign forces from Yemeni territory and preserves Yemen’s independence and sovereignty over its entire territory.
Sharaf’s remarks came in response to the Saudi Foreign Minister’s statement after Sana’a welcomed the new UN envoy for Yemen by stipulating the implementation of what the Saudi minister called the Saudi peace initiative in Yemen and the three references as a basis for achieving peace in Yemen.
Minister Sharaf added, “The Saudi foreign minister should not rush to try to show a position of strength with the start of the new UN envoy’s mission, and he must be aware that peace in Yemen is for the Yemeni people and return to an atmosphere of security and stability and the authority of the national state that imposes order and law and achieves justice.
Sharaf stressed the need for the Saudi leadership to realize that the future bilateral relations between the Republic of Yemen and Saudi Arabia can be reconstructed on the basis of good neighborliness, mutual respect and non-interference in internal affairs, which will lead to good neighborly relations and joint cooperation that will benefit the peoples of the two brotherly countries and achieve security and stability at the regional and international levels.
