Bloc of Political Parties and Components Attacks Arab National Congress for Hosting Houthis leader
Yemen Monitor/Newsroom:
The National Bloc of Yemeni Political Parties and Components today attacked the Arab National Congress held in Beirut after it hosted the Houthi leader and gave him a platform to speak in the name of nationalism (Qawmiyya) and resistance. The bloc considered this an insult to the Yemeni people and a falsification of Arab consciousness.
In a press statement, the bloc stated that involving a figure who leads a coup, terrorist, and racist movement in an Arab conference represents an “intellectual and moral decline that abuses the very concept of nationalism and insults its history of defending the freedom and dignity of the Arab individual.”
The statement added that the reality and behavior of the Houthi group are fundamentally contradictory to the slogans of freedom, justice, and resistance. It asserted that the Houthis “speak of freedom while practicing oppression, of justice while imposing discrimination, and of resistance while killing their own people and executing foreign agendas.”
The bloc affirmed that any attempt to polish the image of the Houthi militia under any political or intellectual title constitutes a disregard for the suffering of the Yemeni people, who are facing a sectarian project that has destroyed state institutions, violated rights and freedoms, and crushed the hopes of Yemenis for living in peace.
The statement called upon the organizers of the Arab National Congress to exercise accuracy and responsibility in choosing their guests and platforms, in respect for the sacrifices of peoples struggling against tyranny and terrorism in all its forms.
The bloc also demanded that the Yemeni government and Ministry of Foreign Affairs take a clear stance regarding this transgression and address the organizing bodies to ensure that such hosting incidents are not repeated in the future, thereby preserving Yemen’s standing and the right of its people to be represented by its legitimate national forces, not coup militias.
