US calls for urgent UN action on attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea
Associated PressUNITED NATIONS — The United States called on the U.N. Security Council Wednesday to take urgent action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels for attacking ships in the key Red Sea trade route and warned their longtime financier Iran that it has a choice to make about continuing to provide support to the rebels. “It can continue its current course,” Lu said, “or it can withhold its support without which the Houthis would struggle to effectively track and strike commercial vessels navigating shipping lanes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.” After the U.S. Navy sank three Houthi boats on Sunday with the loss of 10 of its fighters, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council wouldn’t say what further actions the Biden administration was considering. John Kirby told ABC’s “Good Morning America” the United States has made it clear to the Houthis that “we take these threats seriously and we’re going to make the right decisions going forward.″ Lu, the U.S. deputy ambassador, said the Houthi attacks “pose grave implications for maritime security, international shipping and commerce” and it’s vital that the Security Council speak out now on the need to uphold international law and the right to freedom of navigation. It would also call for all countries to implement the arms embargo on the Houthis and recall that the U.N. panel of experts monitoring sanctions “has found many Houthi weapons to be of Iranian origin.” The U.S. draft would underscore “the need to avoid further escalation of the situation.” There was near unanimous condemnation of the Houthi attacks in speeches Wednesday by the 15 council members, and many calls for the rebel group to release the Galaxy Leader, a Japanese-operated cargo ship with links to an Israeli company that it seized on Nov. 19 along with its crew. On Dec. 1, the Security Council issued a press statement condemning and demanding an immediate halt to Houthi attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea “in the strongest terms.” Russia’s U.N.
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