Saudi says will not allowthreats to sea navigation

Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, received a phone call from Bakhtiyor Saidov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The two ministers exchanged views on expanding bilateral cooperation and partnership, particularly in the economic, trade, and tourism fields, alongside advancing further investment projects, logistics, and transportation services, thereby contributing to transforming existing opportunities into projects that enrich both countries' interests and mutual benefits.
The call addressed developments on the regional and international arenas, with both sides emphasising the importance of expanding areas of consensus, strengthening joint action, and supporting peaceful pathways to resolve disputes in accordance with the principles of international law.
On another note, the Foreign Minister discussed a number of cooperation relations during a phone call with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and exchanged views in the context of current regional and international developments.
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The Saudi cabinet vowed on Tuesday, in a meeting led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, that it would not allow threats to the kingdom's security or Red Sea shipping.
The cabinet said in a statement carried by the official SPA press agency that the kingdom 'will not allow its security or freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and Bab Al Mandab Strait to be threatened'.
It added that the Ansar Allah 'will face the consequences of their crimes and repeated attacks' on Saudi airports, holy cities and economic facilities, following several deadly strikes on the kingdom.
Meanwhile, Yemen's Ansar Allah said Saudi Arabia struck an oil facility in Sanaa on Tuesday, after the Riyadh-led coalition told civilians to leave the surrounding area in its first evacuation order for the Yemeni capital since the war flared up again.
After a series of strikes on the kingdom's airports and energy sites, the coalition's spokesman said people should leave an oil facility belonging to the Yemen Petroleum Company on the western outskirts of Sanaa before it was attacked.
US President Donald Trump accused Yemen's Ansar Allah fighters of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices ahead of the US midterm elections and warned that he would 'never forget' their attacks on Saudi Arabia, amid a widening regional conflict.
'The Ansar Allah is behaving very badly,' ⁠Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, accusing the group of resuming attacks after a period of relative quiet following US strikes in Yemen last ​year.
Trump also made ⁠clear that his warning would extend beyond the ​November 3 midterm elections, saying, 'I'll be there after the elections, and I will never forget!' — Agencies