Riyadh, January 04, 2022, SPA -- Secretary-General of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf has expressed his condemnation of the terrorist attacks carried out by the Houthi militia, with armed robbery and piracy on the cargo ship Rawabi, which carries the UAE flag. He affirmed the stance of GCC's states in supporting UAE in all the measures it will take against this brutal attack, which calls for endangering the safety and security of international maritime transport, and rejection of any impediment to the movement of ships and tankers. He added that the attack is a flagrant violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and the United Nations conventions on the sea, especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime of 2000. He called on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards such criminal attacks to take firm stances towards the hostile practices of this terrorist militia. -- SPA 06:43 LOCAL TIME 03:43 GMT 0003 www.spa.gov.sa/w1673669