Riyadh.. A symposium on Red Sea security recommends supporting the Yemeni government and its naval forces

A symposium on Red Sea security recommended the need to support the Yemeni government and its naval forces, to enable them to secure international navigation and stop the threats of the terrorist Houthi militia targeting cargo ships in the most important international waterways.

This came during the symposium organized by the South Korean Embassy in Yemen in partnership with the Messengers of Peace Organization, in Riyadh, with the attendance of a number of academics and the Yemeni representative in the Islamic Coalition to Combat Terrorism, and with the participation of a delegation from the Ministry of Interior headed by the Undersecretary of the Ministry for the Security and Police Sector, Major General Mohammed Musaed Al-Amir.

According to the security media of the ministry, our country participated with a working paper that included two axes (the attacks of the Houthi militia on international navigation in the Red Sea and the cooperation between the Houthi militia and the Al-Qaeda and ISIS organizations).

The symposium came out with a number of recommendations, including "the necessity of supporting the Yemeni naval forces and the Yemeni Coast Guard within the framework of the international community's support for the legitimate Yemeni government to restore the state and stop the Houthi threat to international shipping lanes."

It also recommended "the importance of forming a regional bloc to prevent any threat to regional security due to the strategic importance of the Red Sea as one of the most important international shipping lanes."

The symposium stressed "the necessity of the international community supporting the legitimate Yemeni government to confront the Houthis' involvement and threat to security and safety in the Red Sea and the danger posed by these terrorist militias to regional and international security, in order to achieve the goals and stop the smuggling of weapons from Iran to the terrorist Houthi militias by adopting more effective mechanisms for monitoring, control and tracking."

Since last November, the Iran-backed Houthi militia has been launching drone and missile attacks on cargo ships sailing in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen, claiming that this is in support of Gaza, which has been subjected to a devastating Israeli war since October 7. These attacks have negatively affected shipping, trade and global supply chains.

As a result, the United States formed a military coalition led by it, and since the beginning of this year, it has been carrying out strikes alongside Britain that it says target the Houthis’ military capabilities, in response to their attacks on cargo ships, which the Houthis responded to with attacks on American and British naval ships, considering them “military targets.”