Delhi\\\'s help sought to bring back stranded Bangladeshis from Yemen

The government has officially sought India's assistance for bringing back stranded Bangladeshis from trouble-torn Yemen, according to a tweet by External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj Monday.
In a message on Twitter, the minister said a total of 23 countries sought assistance of India to evacuate their citizens from the Middle Eastern country.
The Ministry of External Affairs of India has received the requests from countries like Bangladesh, Hungary, Germany, the USA, Iraq, Malaysia, Ireland, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Nepal, spokesman of the ministry Syed Akbaruddin in another tweet said.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Bangladesh, between 1,500 and 3,000 Bangladeshis were estimated to be in Yemen before the conflict escalated and the government sought India's assistance as it does not have any mission in Yemen.
"Our Kuwait mission is accredited to Yemen and it is far off from the country," a senior official at the MoFA said, adding that they had formally approached the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and India, which was mobilising ships and aircraft to bring back Indians stranded there.
Bangladesh had strongly condemned the Houthi militia action in Yemen and supported Saudi Arabia-led efforts to restore the legitimate state authority.  
The Houthi rebels, representing a Shia minority that makes up around a third of Yemen's population, emerged as the most powerful force in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country last year when they captured capital Sana'a.
They ousted President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country in February last amid the Houthi uprising.
Bangladesh in a statement last week deplored acts of violence perpetrated by the Houthis on the people of Yemen 'resulting in a humanitarian crisis'.
Foreign nationals have deserted Yemen capital in the wake of the attacks. The UN, too, has evacuated about a hundred of its international staff from Sana'a, which has been under Houthi control since September last.
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