The United Nations Security Council has demanded an “immediate” end to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea, AFP reports.

The resolution passed “demands that the Houthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security.”

It was adopted after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria, abstained.

The resolution “condemns in the strongest terms the at least two dozen Houthi attacks on merchant and commercial vessels since November 19, 2023, when the Houthis attacked and seized the Galaxy Leader and its crew,” according to the text seen by AFP.