Pak Sahafat – Nearly 50 US lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Wednesday issued a resolution seeking to end any US involvement in Saudi Arabia’s air operation in Yemen.
According to media reports, the bill ends the sharing of information on Saudi-led coalition offensive attacks and logistical support, and prohibits US forces from joining coalition forces in the Yemeni war without the prior official permission of Congress.
While many US lawmakers see Saudi Arabia as an important partner in the Middle East, members of Congress have long criticized US involvement in the Yemeni war.
According to the United Nations, this war has created one of the worst human catastrophes in the world.
The new bill, backed by dozens of Democrats and a handful of Republicans, comes after similar efforts over the past few years to limit the role of US lawmakers in Yemen’s seven-year war or limit arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
Previous bills failed to become law but put pressure on the White House to reconsider its policy.
The main supporters of the resolution were Democrat Peter DeFazio, Adam Schiff, Pramila Jayapal and Republican Nancy Mays.
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A similar bill was passed in the House and Senate in 2019, but failed to get the required two-thirds majority in both houses to pass a veto by then-Republican President Donald Trump.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke by telephone on Tuesday with Rashid al-Alimi, chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Council, and stressed the need to extend the two-month ceasefire in Yemen.
The UN Secretary-General and the Yemeni official discussed the ceasefire reached by the United Nations and the political and security developments in Yemen during the telephone conversation.
Guterres stressed the close relationship between the UN and the Yemeni government, and the need to extend and fully implement all elements of the two-month renewable ceasefire.
The chairman of the Yemeni Supreme Political Council said: If the enemy does not adhere to the ceasefire, the armed forces of this country are ready to do their duty in this regard.
UN agencies, including World Health Organization and UNICEF, have repeatedly warned that Yemen’s people continue to face famine and a humanitarian catastrophe that is unprecedented in the last century.
Many experts attribute the recent escalation of the Saudi coalition’s attacks on Yemen to the failure of the coalition to achieve its goals in Yemen. The United Nations blames the continuing conflict in Yemen and the inhumane siege of the country for the unprecedented famine and humanitarian catastrophe of the past century.