Postponement of Gulf Cooperation Council–EU Summit in Riyadh
In 2015, following its military attack on Yemen, Saudi Arabia imposed a land, air and sea blockade on the impoverished country. The United States joined this blockade in October 2016, then claimed it had withdrawn from that decision.
The meeting of the leaders of the Cooperation Council and the European Union in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, was postponed.
According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, quoted by Reuters, the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council announced that the meeting of the heads of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union, which was supposed to be held on October 24 (November 2) in Riyadh, has been postponed.
According to the statement of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, the new date of this meeting will be determined and announced with the agreement of both parties.
The statement of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council states that the continuation of the Yemeni army's efforts to target Saudi Arabia and the extension of the suspension of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh were among the reasons for this decision.
Yahya Saree, the spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces, announced in a statement yesterday, Wednesday: In response to Saudi aggression against Sana'a and other free provinces and within the framework of the deterrence operation against the aggressor Saudi enemy, who during this period carried out 2,218 air and missile attacks against our country and nation and committed dozens of crimes, and also in line with the implementation of the warnings we gave to the Saudi criminal enemy, the Yemeni armed forces in a unique military operation, the "Aramco" company in Dhahran, located in the Eastern Province and It targeted "Khaled" airport as well as "Aramco" refinery in Riyadh.
In 2015, after the military attack on Yemen, Saudi Arabia imposed a land, air and sea blockade on this impoverished country, and the United States joined this blockade in October 2016, and then claimed to have withdrawn from this decision.
On July 14, 1405, Sana'a decided to defeat this siege and subsequently, Saudi Arabia bombarded Sana'a airport, which was met with a decisive response by the armed forces, and by carrying out operations, by pushing back the Yemeni militias supported by Saudi Arabia, they succeeded in achieving great victories, including the control of the port and historical city of "Al Mokha" and the important, strategic and coastal area of Kahabob in the south of this country.