News - Yemen: The head of National Delegation Mohammed Abdulsalam met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and discussed with him means of progress in completing the prisoner exchange.

Abdulsalam affirmed the readiness of the Salvation Government to progress in this humanitarian issue and to complete a comprehensive exchange process. He called at the same time to reveal the fate of the missing prisoners and to give this aspect greater attention.

In June, the head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs Abdul Qadir Al-Murtada revealed new Saudi directives to aggression-mercenaries in which they ordered a stop to all locally agreed prisoner exchange.

Al-Murtada explained that the Saudis scolded mercenaries and ordered the suspension of seven prisoner exchanges on several fronts, including 400 prisoners from both sides.

Mercenaries working with the US-Saudi aggression had received strict Saudi directives to prevent local exchanges since March, and as a result the National Committee for Prisoners' Affairs was only able to carry out some individual exchanges.

Al-Murtada said that the forces of aggression put obstacles in the way of implementing the agreements that were sponsored by the United Nations. He added that the Saudi regime prevented all exchanges that take place through local mediation.

Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf stressed the need to pressure the countries of US-Saudi aggression to respect international humanitarian law and international human rights law, to end aggression, siege and turn for peace.