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European Union will launch Operation Aspides in the Red Sea on February 19

2024-02-17

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Operation Aspides (Shields) to ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea will be launched on February 19 for a period of one year. A high-ranking EU representative told reporters about this on February 16 on the eve of a meeting of the foreign ministers of the 27 community countries.

“The launch will be on Monday for one year,” an EU spokesman said.

He explained that the objectives of the operation are expected to be achieved within this period.

The decision to launch Operation Aspides amid ongoing Yemeni Houthi attacks on civilian ships was published on 12 February in the Official Journal of the EU. It is assumed that the operation will take place in the area of the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz Straits, in the Gulf of Aden, the international waters of the Red and Arabian Seas, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.

Ships voluntarily provided by EU countries will take part in the operation. Germany and Belgium have already agreed to do this.

As Regnum reported, earlier Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that strikes on the positions of the Yemeni Houthis carried out by the United States and Great Britain are contrary to the UN Charter. These countries are trying to drag other states into the conflict, he emphasized.

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Patrushev said that US and British strikes against the Houthis are completely illegitimate

The strikes on the positions of the Yemeni Houthis carried out by the United States and Great Britain are contrary to the UN Charter.

So are the missiles, etc. the Houthis are aiming at ships passing their shores, with the goal of disrupting international shipping. Going pirate has uncomfortable consequences.

These countries are trying to drag other states into the conflict, said Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev on February 16 at a meeting of Security Council secretaries on Afghan issues in Bishkek.

He emphasized that Washington and London started a war with Yemen, using as a pretext ensuring freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. They are trying to involve the countries of the region in it.

Sorry. Sitting there and taking it isn’t in the Anglo-Saxon DNA.

“However, their attacks on Houthi positions are absolutely illegitimate and have nothing to do with the exercise of the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, as Washington is trying to present,” Patrushev said.

The Security Council Secretary also stated that due to the West's desire to dominate the world at any cost, the international situation has deteriorated to an unprecedented extent.

As Regnum reported, on the night of January 11-12, the United States and Britain, as part of an international coalition, began a military operation in Yemen. They used cruise missiles for attacks. Washington and London said the attack was in response to Houthi attacks on ships off the Yemeni coast.

Posted by:badanov

#1 Why am I thinking "asps"?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-17 02:09

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