12 January 2024 at 07:37 Espen Barth Eide on the Yemen attack: – Thinks the Americans will avoid a major regional conflict Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) tells news that the British-American attack in Yemen leads to concern that the conflict in the Middle East is escalating. – It is a low-intensity conflict that is now spreading to the neighboring country. The basic conflict is the one we see in Gaza and in the Middle East. We must do everything we can to solve it, he says. The foreign minister emphasizes that the Houthi militia’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea are not acceptable. – It is a necessary corridor to get through the Suez Canal. A great deal of the world’s shipping traffic goes there. The UN Security Council has been very clear that the Houthis must stop this, he says. Barth Eide hopes that there will not be a major regional conflict. – I believe that the Americans will avoid this becoming a major regional conflict in which they become a part, he says.
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