The Kremlin condemned today the US-British strikes against them Houthi overnight in Yemen, calling them “illegal” under international law.
“We condemn them. You know a United Nations resolution was adopted, we abstained, and the countries that carried out the strike attempted to provide an international legal basis for their actions. This attempt was unsuccessful because the adopted resolution does not provide any right to carry out attacks and therefore, from the point of view of international law, it is illegal,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov to journalists.
THE Russiawhich has been criticized for illegal, according to the West, war in Ukraine, stated that the attack on Yemen was carried out without a mandate from the United Nations. With China Russia abstained on Wednesday from a vote in the UN Security Council, which in a resolution demanded an “immediate” halt to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, while calling on all member states to uphold the arms embargo against the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels. The text, which was drawn up by the US and Japan, was adopted with 11 votes in favor and 4 abstentions (Russia, China, Algeria, Mozambique).
As Russia said today, it shares its concerns of Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region for the blows. Riyadh appealed for restraint and asked to “avoid escalation” after the attacks, adding that it was monitoring the situation with great concern.
“We share the concerns expressed by our regional partners, especially Saudi Arabia,” Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said earlier, strongly denouncing the attacks by the US and its allies and calling them irresponsible adventures that risk sowing the chaos throughout the Middle East.
“A large-scale military escalation in its region Red Sea risks canceling the positive trends that have emerged recently in the process of settling the crisis in Yemen and also destabilizing the situation in the entire Middle East”, said Zakharova, requesting the emergency convening of the Security Council UN.
Russia's ally Iran also condemned the US-British strikes as illegal and leading to escalation.
Source: News Beast
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