Yemen’s internationally recognised government has welcomed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Houthi attacks but criticised the council for failing to designate the group as a terrorist organisation, Al Jazeera reports.

Yemen’s ambassador to the UN, Abdullah al-Saadi, says the resolution came at a critical moment as the Houthis intensified military operations and threatened maritime security in the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden.

“We regret that the council was unable to call things by their names and describe the Houthi militias as terrorist groups,” he says, according to Yemen’s state news agency SABA.

The Security Council has unanimously adopted the resolution, extending financial and travel sanctions related to the conflict in Yemen.