The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, welcomed, on Tuesday 9 February, the announcement by the United States of the revocation of the designation of Ansar Allah, the Yemeni Houthi movement, as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation.
The former US administration had announced this designation on 11 January (see EUROPE B12634A19).
“This designation could have catastrophic consequences in the context of Yemen, as the country is highly dependent...