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"Mr President, whether we call what has happened in Yemen a coup or not, those now in government have called themselves a revolutionary council and, of course, there are deep concerns about the role of Iran. Nevertheless, Europe must maintain lines of communication and support the UN-led mediation efforts. The alternatives are worse. Clearly, this morning’s news of the closure of the British and other embassies is a further potent sign of the failure of the rule of law in the country. It is only a month since in this chamber we gave a memorial for the Charlie Hebdo attack, and we should recall how responsibility for it was claimed by al-Qaida in Yemen.
This is a country where we all need to have some humility. I remember Baroness Ashton in this Chamber saying Yemen was the model for the EU’s comprehensive strategy. President Obama called it a model for the United States counter-terrorism strategy. I know diplomats who say we have devoted considerable help to Yemen but not sufficiently to enable the domestic government to have the capacity to deliver on the reform aspirations of its people.
In 2012 I was with Mr Preda and I went and sat in the tents in Sana’a’s Freedom Square, listening to the hopes of the young protestors. I have heard the Yemeni children saying that they have nightmares about the sound of drone attacks – the same stories my own mother told me about the V2 bombs from the Second World War – and I wonder whether the existing efforts are truly countering terrorism or are instead in danger of fuelling it.
Today we are looking at what increasingly threatens to be another failed state, and the lessons of Yemen are twofold. First, we must make the right diplomatic responses now to do all we can to avoid the country sliding down even further. But second, if we want to protect our own people and promote our own principles, where reform is under way in the Arab world, we have to do more and better to support it when we can. The failures of a failed state are our failures too."@en1
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