A member of the Presidential Leadership Council, Othman Majli, confirmed on Sunday that the Council would continue to take measures and remedies that he said would “preserve the Yemeni people’s right to protect their national capabilities, restore the state, strengthen the economy, preserve the national currency, and curb the Houthis’ truly hostile approach.” The banking and financial sector.” 

This came during a meeting between “Majali” with the UAE Ambassador to Yemen, “Mohammed Al Zaabi,” with whom he discussed, according to the Yemeni news agency “Saba” (official), “current developments, and the Emirati efforts to achieve peace and stability in Yemen.”< /p>

Majli said, during the meeting, that “the Houthis’ hostile approach continues to destroy the economy and monetary system, plunder citizens’ savings, bankrupt commercial banks, and use the financial system in areas under the group’s control to launder money and finance its terrorist activities at home and abroad.”

 He added that the Houthi group “was the one who went to escalation by imposing exchange differences, targeting oil export ports, creating customs and tax points outside the authority of the law, seizing Yemeni Airlines planes, obstructing the transportation of pilgrims, preventing Yemenis from traveling for treatment abroad, and thwarting Muscat recently held consultations and released prisoners and abductees, and refused to disclose the identity of Muhammad Qahtan, who was kidnapped 9 years ago, or allow his family to visit him.

For his part, the Emirati ambassador affirmed “his country’s commitment to standing with the Yemeni people and their leadership represented by the Presidential Leadership Council, and to support the unity of decision and position in restoring state institutions, and preserving Yemen and its territorial integrity,” according to the agency.

Majli’s meeting with the Emirati ambassador, and his confirmation that the Presidential Leadership Council will continue to take economic measures, comes after the UN envoy’s letter that called on the Leadership Council to postpone the recent decisions of the Central Bank.