President Al-Alimi Holds Talks with Lebanon’s PM on Restoring State Institutions and Addressing Shared Challenges

  Munich

The President of the Presidential Leadership Council met on Friday with Mr. Nawaf Salam, the Prime Minister of the Lebanese Republic, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference hosted by the German city of Munich.

During the meeting, the Lebanese Prime Minister conveyed to His Excellency the President the greetings of his brother, President Joseph Aoun, along with his best wishes of good health and happiness to the President and members of the Presidential Leadership Council. The Prime Minister conveyed President’s Aoun wishes for security, stability, and peace to the Yemeni people.

For his part, the President of the Presidential Leadership Council asked the Lebanese Prime Minister to convey his greetings, and those of the Council’s members, to the Lebanese leadership. He extended his best wishes of continued health and well-being, and to the brotherly Lebanese people prosperity and stability.

The talks addressed the latest developments in the two brotherly countries, bilateral relations and ways to enhance and develop them. Furthermore they discussed regional developments of mutual concern, including efforts to coordinate Arab positions in confronting projects aimed at undermining the security and stability of the region and its national security.

His Excellency reaffirmed Yemen’s firm support for Lebanon, its government and national institutions, and for respect for its sovereignty and non-interference in its internal affairs. He also underscored the exclusive right of the Lebanese state to monopolize arms and the decisions of war and peace, and to enable its army to extend control over the entirety of its national territory.

The President emphasized that Lebanon’s stability represents a pillar of balance in the Arab Mashreq, just as Yemen’s stability constitutes a cornerstone of security in the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea.

His Excellency praised the bold decisions taken by the Lebanese government to restrict weapons to the authority of the state and to assign the Lebanese Army with enforcing this measure. He described them as a historic sovereign step that restores the principle of the state’s exclusive authority over the decisions of war and peace.

His Excellency noted that Lebanon’s experience in restoring constitutional state authority offers an important reform model within a complex regional environment. He pointed out that the phenomenon of dual arms in Lebanon is, in essence, similar to the coup carried out in Yemen by the Houthi militia backed by the Iranian regime against state institutions and sovereign decision-making.

He stressed that Iranian interventions in both countries have not constituted ordinary political support, but rather backing for armed structures parallel to the state, thereby weakening institutions, obstructing development, and plunging both nations into cycles of attrition.

The President also commended Lebanon’s renewed openness toward its Arab surroundings, particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council, as a natural depth and key supporter of stability in Lebanon, Yemen, and the broader region.

The President further addressed the issue of Houthi-affiliated media platforms operating in Beirut. He renewed his call for the completion of measures to halt any media activity linked to militias on Lebanese territory, in line with Lebanon’s policy of dissociation and its commitment not to allow its land to be used as a platform for harming its Arab brethren.

The President underscored that restoring the state in both Lebanon and Yemen is not merely a domestic matter, but a question of regional stability. He stressed that the international community is required to support national states rather than provide further incentives to militias.

The meeting was attended by Dr. Yahya Al-Shuaibi, Director of the Office of the Presidency, Mr. Louay Al-Eryani, Yemen’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, and Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Makhlafi, the Economic Adviser to the President of the Presidential Leadership Council.