DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Wednesday slammed a report prepared by United Nations experts over alleged human rights violations in Yemen.
Kuwait’s permanent delegate to the UN, Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim told the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council that the report was “deeply flawed.”
“[The report] seems to hurl false accusations at the Saudi-led Coalition,” Al-Ghunaim said.
He said the UN experts singled out the coalition of Arab states fighting Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi militia as accountable for the human rights violations in the war-torn country.
“The Arab Coalition never ceased to cooperate with the UN specialists in Yemen to ensure that civilian casualties are averted,” he said.
The Kuwaiti diplomat went on to give the Arab coalition credit for their “efforts to restore normalcy and hope to the lives of the Yemeni people.”
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Al-Waselthe, also said the report has come away from “objectivity and characterized by haste” in drawing conclusions and came full of errors in its approach and contents.
In a speech to the Human Rights Council, A-Waselthe said that the report ignored the information provided to the group of experts by the concerning agencies in the Arab Coalition.
The Kuwaiti envoy condemned the Houthis’ acts of aggression that violates international humanitarian laws.
