Arab states want UN to blacklist former Yemen president's son

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I imagine the U.N. will do this since they had already done it to his father.

Arab states want UN to blacklist former Yemen president's son
Source: Reuters - Wed, 8 Apr 2015 00:37 GMT
Author: Reuters
By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab countries and Jordan want the United Nations Security Council to blacklist the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi militia leader and effectively impose an arms embargo on the rebels that rule most of the poor Arabian peninsula country.

Experts from the 15-council members met on Tuesday for the first time to discuss a draft resolution that would impose a global asset freeze and travel ban on Ahmed Saleh, the former head of Yemen's elite Republican Guard, and Abdulmalik al-Houthi, a top leader of the Iran-allied Shi'ite Houthi group.

Saleh's father, former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and two other senior Houthi leaders, Abd al-Khaliq al-Huthi and Abdullah Yahya al Hakim, were blacklisted by the Security Council in November. Yemeni soldiers loyal to the former president are fighting alongside the Houthis.

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