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The Associated Press reported that the United Arab Emirates, after announcing the withdrawal of its forces from the aggression against Yemen, began to dismantle parts of a military base that it was using in Eritrea to transport weapons and heavy forces to Yemen.
The agency indicated today, Thursday, that the UAE had invested millions of dollars in the development of a port, the expansion of a helipad and the establishment of other infrastructure on the base established by the Italian colonialists in the 1930s in the Eritrean city of Assab in the Red Sea, and has used this site as a base since September 2015. To transfer heavy weapons and forces to participate in the indiscriminate war against the defenseless Yemeni people
The Turkish-backed Libyan reconciliation government has previously claimed that the UAE is smuggling weapons into the country through this Assab base.
According to UN experts, the United Arab Emirates had previously deployed various combat mechanisms at this base, including Leclerc tanks, G6 howitzers, and BMP-3 armored fighting vehicles, as well as attack helicopters and drones, and other types of aircraft. combat at the base.
Barracks were also built at the base, which housed Emirati, Yemeni and Sudanese soldiers who were transported to Aden aboard the SWIFT-1 ship, which in 2016 was attacked by the Yemeni army and people’s committees.
Source: Associated Press
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