CAIRO Cheap Mike Cammalleri Jersey , March 26 (Xinhua) -- Egypt announced Thursday its participation by naval and air forces in the Saudi-led military operation against the Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen in response to the request of the Yemeni president, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
It is inevitable for Egypt to respond to the plea of the Yemeni people to restore stability in the turmoil-stricken country, the statement said.
The move is "based on Egypt's responsibility to preserve the Arab national security in the Gulf and Red Sea region on the Joint Arab Defense Treaty and the charter of the League of Arab States," according to the statement.
Yemen was hit by a wave of internal violence since the Shiite rebels ousted Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi in February and forced him to flee the capital Sanaa to the southern seaside city of Aden.
A Saudi-led military coalition launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen earlier Thursday, a day after Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin called for an Arab military interference during his meetings with his Arab counterparts in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh ahead of an Arab summit.
Yassin said Thursday that the legitimate leadership of Yemen seeks a peaceful national dialogue after settlement of the situation in the conflict-stricken country Cheap Adrian Kempe Jersey , Egyptian official news agency reported.
"We seek peaceful dialogue after the situation in Yemen is settled following the military strikes launched by the coalition forces against Houthi-controlled sites to defend legitimacy," Yassin told reporters on the sidelines of Arab ministerial meetings in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Also in the day, Saudi official media said Yemeni President Hadi arrived in the Saudi Arabia's capital city of Riyadh. No further details were reported about the nature of the visit, as Hadi is supposed to head the delegation of his country to participate in the Arab League summit which will be held in Sharm el-Shiekh during March 28-29.
The Saudi-led operation in Yemen was approved by many Arab states, excluding Algeria Cheap Oscar Fantenberg Jersey , Syria and Iraq that rejected military intervention in the conflict-stricken country.
"We are generally against taking military actions to resolve problems in our Arab world, but we rather support political and peaceful solutions," Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday on the sidelines of the preparatory ministerial meetings in Sharm El-Sheikh.
"We bless any efforts to take the stalled situation in Yemen to a new direction and to bridge the gap between the Yemeni government and various political forces there," al-Ja'afari added, noting that the Saudi-led strike surprised his country.
Regionally Cheap Jake Muzzin Jersey , the move was supported by Turkey while rejected by the Houthis' main Shiite backer Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizbollah militant group.