The UN Security Council condemned on Monday a suicide car bombing last week at a Yemeni tourist site that killed nine people.

 

In a presidential statement read out by Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya, the council's president for July, council members "unequivocally condemns the terrorist attack that took place in Marib," some 190 kilometers from Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on July 2.

 

The council also expressed its deepest sympathy to the victims and their families, and to the peoples and governments of Yemen and Spain.

 

The statement urged all states to play their part to ensure that the perpetrators, the organizers, the financiers and the sponsors of the attack are brought to justice.

 

"The Security Council reaffirms that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security and that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed," the statement added.

 

Seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni nationals were killed in the bombing which took place near an archaeological site in the northeastern province of Marib.

 

(Xinhua News Agency July 11, 2007)