Gov’t Spokesman welcomes Al-Azhar Sheikh’s call to end Wars & divisions among Muslims
In a statement , Al-Bukhaiti said the call serves the interests of the Muslim nation, helps safeguard its resources and strengthens unity in the face of the looming threat posed by Israel, backed by the United States, and their declared project to reshape the Middle East and establish so-called “Greater Israel.”
He stressed that Yemen’s government and people support unifying Muslim efforts against their common enemy and have consistently welcomed fair and just peace initiatives. Yemen, he said, has made repeated efforts to achieve an honorable and just peace that safeguards its interests, while Saudi enemy has persistently sought to thwart these efforts.
“We have been defending ourselves for 12 years after being subjected to an unjustified and treacherous attack that violated Yemen’s sovereignty,” Al-Bukhaiti said, adding that the aggression caused enormous human and material losses, while the blockade further worsened the suffering of the Yemeni people.
He stated that more than 40,000 people had been killed, most of them women and children, while the blockade had led to the deaths of more than 1.4 million people due to a lack of medicines and the inability to travel abroad for treatment.
Al-Bukhaiti expressed Sana’a’s readiness to engage constructively with Al-Azhar’s initiative and receive the relevant delegations. He emphasized that Yemen has consistently maintained that war is not the best way to resolve disputes among Arab , Muslim countries and resorted to it only in self-defense after exhausting all other options.
He expressed hope that the sincere initiative would receive a positive response from all parties, paving the way for reconciliation, resolving disputes , strengthening ties among Muslim nations in pursuit of the common interests of the Arab and Islamic worlds.