Oman Lodges Protest to UAE Over Envoy’s Residence Shelling in Yemen

Oman’s Foreign Ministry handed the ambassador of UAE a protest letter over the damage caused to the residence of the Omani ambassador to Yemen in an Arab coalition airstrike.

DUBAI (Sputnik) — Oman’s Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Muscat and handed him a protest letter over the damage caused to the residence of the Omani ambassador to Yemen in an Arab coalition airstrike, the UAE Foreign Ministry’s spokesman said Tuesday.

On September 19, media reports emerged that the Omani ambassador’s home in Sanaa was bombed by the Saudi-led coalition. The same day, Muscat sent a protest message with Saudi Arabia’s envoy.

According to Ahmed Ali Balushi, the UAE ministry is currently examining the note of protest and in coordination with other member countries of the coalition will prepare a response to the Sultanate.

Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government and Shiite Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition faction.

The coalition of Arab states has been launching airstrikes in Yemen at the request of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi since March, in an attempt to push Houthis out of areas they have come to control.

Oman has mediated multilateral consultations between the Houthis, Iran, Saudi Arabia and, reportedly, United States, to make the warring parties in Yemen cease hostilities.