{"id":145379,"date":"2026-09-20T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/?p=145379"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:57:33","slug":"guterres-to-al-arabiya-we-strongly-condemn-houthi-attacks-against-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/guterres-to-al-arabiya-we-strongly-condemn-houthi-attacks-against-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Guterres to \u201cAl Arabiya\u201d: We Strongly Condemn Houthi Attacks Against Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">United Nations Secretary-General \u201cAntonio Guterres\u201d told \u201cAl Arabiya\/Al Hadath\u201d on Sunday that he strongly condemns the Houthi attacks targeting infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. \u201cGuterres\u201d stressed the importance of respecting freedom of navigation, including in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, describing attacks targeting Saudi ships as \u201ccompletely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The United Nations Secretary-General stressed the need to respect navigation rights and freedom of navigation amid the tensions gripping the region. \u201cGuterres\u201d had received yesterday, Saturday, \u201cJasem Mohamed Albudaiwi,\u201d Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, on the sidelines of his participation in the meetings of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">During the meeting, both sides condemned Houthi militia attacks on Saudi Arabia and the targeting of civilian objects, affirming that such attacks threaten the security and stability of the region. They also discussed a number of regional issues and the efforts being made regarding them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">An independent media platform that provides reliable news and objective analysis, and seeks to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding among peoples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>For more news, visit our homepage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Counselor Faisal Al-Mutairi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> September 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated:<\/strong> September 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General \u201cAntonio Guterres\u201d told \u201cAl Arabiya\/Al Hadath\u201d on Sunday that he strongly condemns the Houthi attacks targeting infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. \u201cGuterres\u201d stressed the importance of respecting freedom of navigation, including in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, describing attacks targeting Saudi ships as \u201ccompletely unacceptable.\u201d The United Nations Secretary-General stressed the need to respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[74],"class_list":{"0":"post-145379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145380,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379\/revisions\/145380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145379"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=145379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}