UN General Assembly
2024

To prevent the expansion and entrenchment of this escalation, there is an urgent need for a collective approach to support the Yemeni government and strengthen its institutional capacity to protect its territorial waters and secure its national territory. Without addressing these needs, and without enforcing relevant UN resolutions—including the ban on the flow of Iranian weapons and the drying up of funding sources—the militias will not engage in any meaningful peace efforts. They will continue their extortion tactics against regional and international stakeholders. History teaches us that complacency in the face of peace’s enemies marks the beginning of the worst and most costly wars. Despite the truce agreed to by the government in April 2022, the militias have continued their military violations and grave abuses of human rights and national and international laws. In October 2022, the Houthi militias attacked oil export ports in the governorates of Hadramout and Shabwa, depriving the Yemeni people of vital revenues for salaries and essential services. This further worsened the humanitarian crisis and sent the national currency into unprecedented decline.