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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n The EU is planning a \u201cpurely defensive\u201d mission to protect commercial vessels from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief said Friday. Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed The EU is planning a \u201cpurely defensive\u201d mission to protect commercial vessels from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the bloc\u2019s foreign policy chief said Friday. Speaking at the third European Union Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels, Josep Borrell said: \u201cDisruptions to freedom of navigation have consequences that go …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13448,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions\/13448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpeaking at the third European Union Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels, Josep Borrell said: \u201cDisruptions to freedom of navigation have consequences that go beyond economic losses. It is not just a matter of some days more or some dollars more, it is about peace and stability.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd that is why, we [are] actively working with our international partners to restore maritime security in the Red Sea. We are advancing the work on a new maritime operation that we call ASPIDES, from an ancient name of the Greek language to refer to a shield,\u201d he added.
\nHowever, Borrell underlined that the mission is different from the US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, which includes attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen.
\n\u201cOur purpose is not to conduct any kind of attack, but just to defend,\u201d he said, adding that the mission \u201cwill be deployed at sea and \u2026 will not conduct any operation on land.\u201d
\nOn Jan. 31, Borrell announced a maritime mission, named Aspides, to protect commercial vessels in the Red Sea against Houthi attacks, which will be launched by Feb. 19.
\nThe Houthis have been targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea, particularly those bound for Israel, since November. They said the attacks aim to pressure Israel to halt its deadly onslaught on the Gaza Strip. That has prompted the US and UK to launch retaliatory airstrikes against targets inside Yemen.
\nThe Red Sea is one of the world’s most frequently used sea routes for oil and fuel shipments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"