A senior UAE official on Monday called on Gulf countries to strengthen their security cooperation following a series of attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis against Saudi Arabia.
Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates’ president, made the comments after weekend attacks on Riyadh’s international airport left 14 dead and hundreds wounded.
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“Since the beginning of the aggression against the Arab Gulf countries, based on the aggressor’s miscalculation in viewing them as the weakest link in a war we have tried to avoid, it has become clear that we are all targeted,” Gargash wrote on X.
The Saudi airport attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthis undermined the security of the entire region, he said.
“It is necessary to revive joint action by the Gulf countries, particularly in security and defence, and to strengthen the collective security system,” he added, arguing that “there has been a grave shortcoming, which has encouraged others to encroach upon us”.
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The UAE, which has long been at odds with Saudi Arabia over Yemen, expressed its “full solidarity” with the kingdom after an attack on Saturday left 13 dead and more than 300 wounded at Riyadh airport.
One person was killed and 11 others were wounded in a fresh attack on Sunday at the airport, Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said.
