The Yemeni Minister of Defence in the Sana’a government, Major General Mohammed Nasser Al-Atifi, revealed on Monday what the scenario of upcoming naval battles with Saudi-led coalition forces would look like.
Al-Atifi affirmed that the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab, the Gulf of Aden, and the vital and strategic area of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, would be the geopolitical scope of the Yemeni armed forces and the defence policy of Yemen.
During an expanded meeting of the Naval Forces Command, Al-Atifi announced that Sana’a has the full ability to secure, protect and stabilise international shipping routes along all of Yemen’s sovereign territorial waters.
The Minister praised the success of the recent tests conducted by the naval forces on a number of naval missiles and modern and advanced gunboats.
“What the enemy is doing in terms of occupation and imposing aggressive maritime control over ports, islands and territorial waters, is terrorism in and of itself,” Al-Atifi explained.
“The illegal presence of the occupation in Yemeni territorial waters will have a very high cost.”
He added, “We will face any challenge with a challenge, escalation with escalation, bombing with bombing, occupation with resistance, maneuvers with practical application, and peace with peace.”
