Saleh Ali al-Sammad, the Council’s head, made the remarks in a meeting on Tuesday with Antonia Calvo Puerta, the head of the EU delegation to Yemen, the official Saba’ Net news agency reported.

Sammad expressed hope that the EU would draw the world’s attention to the sufferings of the Yemeni people, citing the bloc’s influence on the United Nations’ Security Council member states.

The UN should play a positive and constructive role to settle the Yemen crisis regardless of any pressure to do otherwise, he added.

The Yemeni official also urged the EU to make efforts to alleviate the plight of the Yemenis, especially those residing in the country’s southern provinces, where the terrorist groups of Daesh and al-Qaeda are active.

Sana’a has also called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to monitor the conditions of the Saudi prisons, where Yemenis are being held, Sammad pointed out.

Puerta, for her part, stressed that the EU pursues a political solution to the Yemen crisis rather than a military one, underlining the need to resume talks between the countries’ opposite sides.