Aden (Al-Ittihad)
The Yemeni government warned against the Houthi group’s attempt to establish “closed schools” that glorify extremist ideology and create terrorists, and called on the international community to take stronger deterrent steps against the group, expressing its positive response to all efforts made to bring peace to the country.
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Eryani, warned of the Houthi group continuing its policy of systematic demolition of the educational process by tampering with the school curricula, imposing double tuition fees on students, and encouraging the phenomenon of school dropout.
He said that the group continues to cut teachers’ salaries and turn public schools into camps for recruiting children and teenagers, making them tools of killing and destruction and time bombs to threaten regional and international peace and security. Al-Eryani pointed out that the Houthi group continues to seize teachers’ salaries in areas under its control for the ninth year in a row, despite the billions it earns from oil derivatives and other revenues, rejecting all the solutions and initiatives that have been proposed to restore the regularity of its disbursement, thus pushing millions of Yemenis below the poverty and famine line. .
Al-Eryani called on the international community, the United Nations, its special envoy to Yemen, and the relevant organizations to declare a clear position on these practices, and to put pressure on the Houthi group to neutralize the educational system and not use it as a tool for mobilization.
In addition, the Yemeni authorities called on the international community to take more deterrent steps against the Houthi group, as a result of its violations against the Yemeni people in various fields, in addition to its attacks on shipping ships and international shipping lines.
This came during a meeting between a representative of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and the US Ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Fagin, where they discussed the latest developments in the situation in the country, the efforts made to bring peace to Yemen, and regional and international developments.
The meeting touched on a number of economic, service and security challenges facing the Yemeni people as a result of the practices of the Houthi group, in addition to the ongoing attacks by the group against shipping ships and international shipping lines and their repercussions on the living conditions of the Yemenis, calling on the international community to take a more resolute stance against the group. Which is trying to implement its agenda of controlling the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
The Yemeni Presidential Council said that Al-Houthi, with his escalation and undermining of opportunities for peace, should need greater confrontation by the regional and international community to restrain him and put an end to his weapons and practices against the Yemeni people and the region, and to support the legitimate government to restore state institutions and extend its control over all Yemeni territory.
The Council stressed the importance of supporting the government in order to carry out further economic and administrative reforms, combat corruption and strengthen the building of state institutions, reaffirming the position of the Yemeni government on the necessity of ending the war and its positive response to efforts to bring peace to the country.
For his part, the American ambassador affirmed his country’s support for the Yemeni government and for all efforts made to bring peace to Yemen, reiterating the American position in support of the Presidential Command Council and the security, unity and stability of Yemen.
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