News - Yemen: The Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Daris, handed a protest note about the detention of UN-authorized fuel and domestic gas ships by the Saudi-led aggression to the UN Coordinator in Yemen, William Grisley.

The ministry called on the United Nations to implement international laws and UN resolutions regarding the release of fuel and domestic gas ships.

For his part, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator expressed his astonishment at the detention of domestic gas tankers, which are not related to any military activity. Grisley explained that any ship that obtains a permit from the United Nations inspection body must freely reach the port of Hodeidah and all regions of Yemen. He affirmed his standing with the suffering of the Yemeni people as a result of the lack of fuel and domestic gas.

Yemen Petroleum Company announced that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression is still detaining nine fuel tankers, including a gas vessel. The company confirmed in a statement, Saturday, that the aggression continues to detain eight fuel tankers containing 198,655 tons of gasoline and diesel for about five months.
 
The company indicated that all the tankers completed all UNVIM procedures in Djibouti, and obtained United Nations permits, which confirms the violation by the relevant United Nations bodies of the International Convention on Human Rights provisions, as well as its permanent disregard for the Stockholm Agreement.
 
Earlier on Friday, the company announced that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression had seized a new fuel tanker belonging to the World Food Program.
 
The official spokesman for the company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the coalition of aggression seized the tanker (Eships Barracuda) of the World Food Program, which was carrying 4,022 tons of diesel.
 
He pointed out that the forces of aggression forcibly took this tanker off the coast of Jizan, despite obtaining the permits of the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism.
 
On Wednesday, Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) confirmed that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression had seized a new fuel ship belonging to the private sector.
 
The spokesman of the Yemen Petroleum Company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the aggression detained in international waters the ship UHUD bought by a factory in the private sector, and it is carrying 30 thousand tons of diesel.
 
As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.
 
The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.