After a hiatus of more than three years, the United States of America announced that it “will resume the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia.”
“Saudi Arabia is a close strategic partner of the United States and we look forward to strengthening this partnership,” said State Department spokesman Vedant Patel, stressing that “since the beginning of the Yemen truce, Saudi Arabia has not carried out a single airstrike in Yemen and cross-border shooting has largely ceased.”
He continued: “Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its part of the agreement, and we are ready to fulfill what is required of us.”
The United States of America “imposed restrictions on arms sales to Saudi Arabia more than three years ago due to possible human rights violations in Yemen.”
Yemen has been witnessing a fragile calm since the United Nations announced on October 2, 2022, when the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah group reached an agreement to extend and expand the truce that lasted for 6 months. Since September 2014, the Ansar Allah group has controlled most of the governorates in central and northern Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa, while an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched military operations on March 26, 2015, in support of the Yemeni army to retake those areas.
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