United Nations, Safar 13, 1439, Nov 2, 2017, SPA-- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia expressed its strong condemnation of the report made by a UN committee that the United Nations has presented $ 14 million to the so-called Yemeni Ministry of Education that is an affiliate of Al-Houthi militias which are planting thousands of mines inside Yemen and on the Saudi border, requesting the reconsideration of the report submitted to the Committee to reflect the facts that had been ignored and the commitment of all United Nations organs to the relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2216, stressing that United Nations support for Al- Houthi coup militias was unjustifiable or unacceptable. The kingdom also confirmed that the rogue militias of Al-Houthi and Saleh had planted and deployed at least 50,000 mines on the Saudi-Yemeni border and tens of thousands of mines in populated Yemeni cities and villages as well as naval mines into the Red Sea near the Saudi border, expressing its surprise and regret at not referring to these facts in the report submitted to the United Nations Committee concerned, considering this as a serious disregard for how these mines pose threat to the security and safety of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This came in a speech delivered by the Kingdom's Permanent Delegation to the United Nations on Wednesday to the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) on item 50 on Mine Action. The delegation of the Kingdom expressed its appreciation for the efforts of the United Nations, in particular the United Nations Mine Action Service in the area of mine clearance and the United Nations efforts to achieve the United Nations Mine Action Strategy for the period 2013-2018 in line with the achievement of the goals of the United Nations Plan for Sustainable Development 2030. --SPA 00:08 LOCAL TIME 21:08 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w527047