Ambassador Hadrami calls on Washington to classify the Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organization” and continue military support for the government

Our country's ambassador to the United States of America, Mohammed Al-Hadrami, called on President Biden's administration to reclassify the Houthi militia as a "foreign terrorist organization" and continue to support the government militarily to enable it to restore the state and achieve peace in the country.

This came in a statement by the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, on the X platform, following two separate meetings held by Ambassador Al-Hadrami with Congressman Betty McCollum, member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and Mario Diaz-Balart, Congressman and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Houthi militia’s coup against power.

The embassy said that Ambassador Al-Hadrami expressed his gratitude for the American support for Yemen, and stressed the need to increase aid to the Yemeni government, as well as increase pressure on the Houthis.

Al-Hadrami stressed the need to continue military assistance to the Yemeni government, and called for classifying the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization to help achieve lasting peace in Yemen.

Ambassador Al-Hadrami met with Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart ( @MarioDB ), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, to express Yemen's gratitude for US support. He emphasized the need for continued military assistance to the Yemeni government and advocated for…

— Yemen Embassy DC (@YemenEmbassy_DC) September 19, 2024

The capital, Sana'a, and a number of Yemeni governorates in the north and west of Yemen have been under the control of the Houthi militia since its coup on September 21, 2014, the tenth anniversary of which falls today.