Now we have simply acquired a press release from the Prime Minister concerning the UK’s position within the navy motion in Yemen. President Joe Biden mentioned that along with Britain, Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands had additionally supplied assist.
Rishi Sunak mentioned: “The Royal Air Drive has carried out focused assaults towards navy services utilized by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“In latest months, Houthi militias have carried out a sequence of harmful and destabilizing assaults on industrial delivery within the Purple Sea, threatening British and different worldwide delivery, considerably disrupting a key commerce route and driving up commodity costs. Their reckless actions endanger lives at sea and deepen the humanitarian disaster in Yemen.
“Regardless of repeated warnings from the worldwide group, the Houthis have continued to hold out assaults within the Purple Sea, together with as lately as this week towards UK and US warships.
“This can’t proceed. The UK will all the time stand for freedom of navigation and the free stream of commerce. Now we have subsequently, along with the USA and with non-operational assist from the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain, taken restricted, crucial and proportionate self-defense measures towards targets related to these assaults so as to weaken the Houthi navy capabilities and the to guard international delivery.
“The Royal Navy continues to patrol the Purple Sea as a part of the multinational Operation Prosperity Guardian to discourage additional Houthi aggression and we urge them to stop their assaults and take steps to de-escalate.”