Yemeni Official Reacts to Saudi, Turkey, Pakistan Defense Agreement
Mahdi Al-Mashat said in an interview with Yemeni Saba News Agency that agreements are not retroactive and the equation of "siege against siege" will continue until its goals are achieved.
Anyone who wants to participate in Saudi Arabia's 12-year aggression and siege (against Yemen) is an aggressor, even if he hides this participation under the cover of glamorous titles, he stated.
He added that Yemeni law has specified how to deal with hostile countries.
Al-Mashat said though that the cost of a just and honorable peace and good neighborliness is much less than war. Addressing Saudi officials, he said, “Even if you gather the whole world to your side, it will not benefit you.”
The heads of state of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a joint defense agreement in Mecca on Friday, under which any act of aggression and armed attack against any of the three countries will be considered an attack against them all.
The provisions of the joint defense agreement between Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which is organized into 8 clauses, state that the Mecca agreement is a defense-focused cooperation that does not target any specific country and aims to strengthen commitments to maintain regional and global peace, stability and prosperity based on burden-sharing and a common understanding of security.
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The aim of this agreement is to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression, and accordingly, any armed attack against any of the three countries will be considered an attack against them all, it said.
According to the agreement, Turkey's membership in NATO and regional partnerships are not substitutes for each other, but are complementary structures that allow for security burden-sharing.
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