Alwaght- The newly-appointed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly urged Saudi regime's officials to end bloody aggression on neighboring Yemen and wind up row with other neighbor Qatar.
Pompeo deliver the messages to his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir at an airport meeting Saturday afternoon; to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman later that night; and to King Salman in a meeting planned for Sunday, NY Times reported..
Pompeo as US Secretary of State arrived in Riyadh on Saturday as part of a three-day tour which will also see him visiting occupied Palestinian territories and Jordan.
The Saudi aggression against Yemen was launched in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government and against the country’s Ansarullah movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective administration.
The offensive has, however, achieved neither of its goals despite the spending of billions of petrodollars and the enlisting of Saudi Arabia's regional and Western allies.
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured during the past three years.
The United Nations says a record 22.2 million people are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. A high-ranking UN aid official recently warned against the “catastrophic” living conditions in Yemen, stating that there was a growing risk of famine and cholera there.
Pompeo told Jubeir on Saturday that Yemeni nation must have easy access to humanitarian and commercial goods, along with fuel, the State Department official said.
The Oil-rich kingdom that has adopted more hawkish approaches in the restive West Asian region after 32-year-old Mohammad bin Salman came to power as crown prince ad defense minister has also imposed an embargo on Qatar with the aim of forcing the tiny Arab state to bow to its orders.
In June 2017 Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the nation, after accusing Doha of supporting "terrorism". Qatar vehemently rejected the allegations as "baseless".
On June 22, the block, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, issued a 13-point list of demands, including the shutdown of Al Jazeera TV, limiting ties with Iran, and expelling Turkish troops stationed in the country as a prerequisite to lifting the blockade.
Qatar rejected all the demands, denouncing them as attempts to violate its sovereignty.
