DUBAI (HRNW) – Saudi Arabia will continue to treat Yemen s Houthis as a terrorist organisation despite a U.S. decision to lift the designation on the group, according to the kingdom s permanent representative to the United Nations.
There has been no other official response from Riyadh to the announcement on Friday by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday that Washington would, effective Feb. 16, lift the terrorist group designation.
“Despite this, we will still deal with the Houthi militia as a terrorist organisation and address its threats with military action,” Abdullah Al-Muallami, told Saudi-owned Asharq News in remarks retweeted by the kingdom s U.N. mission on Saturday.
The Saudi government media office CIC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the decision.
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