The Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Mohsen Mohammed Al-Daari, discussed in the capital, Aden, with the Red Cross mission, represented by the head of the mission, Yann Buchli, the Deputy Protection Department, Valeria Gemalo, and the political advisor, Bahaa Al-Salami, joint cooperation between the ministry and the organization on a number of humanitarian issues.

The Minister of Defense praised the humanitarian role of the International Red Cross mission and its efforts to mitigate further civilian casualties through awareness-raising, holding various training courses, and providing medical and therapeutic services through its field hospitals.

The Minister of Defense explained that members of the armed forces are committed to international humanitarian law at various levels, in contrast to the terrorist Houthi militia, which does not respect any international or local conventions or laws, stressing the readiness of the Ministry of Defense to overcome all difficulties and facilitate the mission’s tasks in performing its humanitarian work.

Lieutenant General Al-Daari noted the planting of millions of mines by the terrorist Houthi militia after declaring Yemen free of them in 2010, praising in the same regard the efforts made by the National Demining Program and the Saudi program “Masam” in clearing large areas and removing hundreds of thousands of mines planted by the militia. Houthi terrorist.

For its part, the Red Cross mission expressed its thanks to the Minister of Defense for facilitating its tasks, confirming that it will work on new humanitarian projects during the current year 2024.