[05/10/2023 06:21]

Aden – Saba
Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Police Sector, Major General Mohammed Al-Amir, discussed with the border management expert at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC, Wolf-Christian Paes, ways of cooperation and coordination between the two sides regarding the networks involved in illicit arms trafficking in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea region.

The meeting discussed identifying and analyzing the criminal networks involved in illicit arms smuggling operations in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea region, including the issues of human, weapons and drug smuggling practiced by the terrorist Houthi militias supported by Iran and their smuggling of weapons and drugs, despite the declared truce with those militias and international agreements which criminalizes those actions that are outside the law and order and that work to corrupt and destroy society.

The field research mission that the expert will undertake during his work period, his field visits to a number of specific sites and his meetings with a number of specialists in this regard, was reviewed, in accordance with the specific field research mission program, enabling him to submit an evaluation report to the United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs.

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