UN General Assembly
2018

all of our national territory and that the State alone must possess medium and heavy weapons. That is the only way to attain stability in Yemen. Anything else will merely mean delaying and then preparing for new rounds of war and conflict. We know that we cannot obtain peace by pleading with these gangsters, as some Member States do. Rather, peace can be achieved by diligently implementing the relevant international resolutions, and Member States should be serious about implementing them, especially Security Council resolution 2216 (2015), which calls on the Houthis to withdraw from cities and institutions and to hand over their weapons unconditionally. I therefore want to call on the Council not to waver in ensuring that its resolutions are implemented, as it did to ensure the political transition and national dialogue in Yemen, which endured for more than a year.