News – Yemen: Member of the national team for redeployment in Hodeidah governorate, Major General Mohammad Al-Qadri, called on the UN mission to implement the Hodeidah Agreement by pressuring the coalition side to implement its obligations.

Major General Al-Qadri said in a press statement on Saturday that US-Saudi aggression refuses until this moment to implement the Stockholm Agreement regarding redeployment, despite the implementation of the national team's commitments and agreements.

Major General Al-Qadri stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation between the national team and the UN mission, which would lay the foundations for security and stability in  Hodeidah governorate.

On a daily basis, the Saudi-led aggression violates the UN-backed agreement, reached between the warring sides during a round of UN-sponsored peace negotiations in Sweden in December 2018.
 
The agreement committed the parties to an immediate ceasefire in the city of Hodeidah and the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Issa, redeployment of forces, securing the ports, the establishment of the joint Redeployment Coordination Committee chaired by the United Nations, and the use of the revenues of the ports to support civil service salary payments.
 
The continuous violations by the forces of aggression in Hodeidah come in light of an international silence identifying the aggression and its crimes against the Yemeni people.
 
In a meeting with the head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement, on January, General Michael Perry, the head of the national team in the Redeployment Committee in Hodeidah Major General Ali Al-Mushki confirmed providing all facilities to alleviate the suffering of Yemeni people. He explained that the aggression’s countries are militarizing the Red Sea and their maneuvers are continuing near Yemen's territorial waters.

Al-Mushki pointed out that the Stockholm agreement is a humanitarian one and its implementation should not be delayed, stressing the need to stop the US-Saudi airstrikes that are killing civilians in Hodeidah and other governorates.
 
For his part, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation explained that the UN Security Council Resolution No. 2451 issued in 2018 stresses the support for the ports of Hodeidah and stresses the need for the flow of humanitarian supplies to the ports, but none of that happened. 

Captain Muhammad Abu Bakr Ishaq also said: We have provided exceptional facilities for the work of the UNMA, but the UN mission has not provided anything and has not implemented the Stockholm agreement related to supporting the port of Hodeidah since December 2018.
  
The head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement, General Michael Beary, expressed his great appreciation for the cooperation of the national party in facilitating the work of the UN mission. He added that they are working to persuade the other party to return to work in accordance with the requirements of the Sweden Agreement.
 
“We realize the importance of port reform, and the ports must be open and materials must enter without hindrances, he said, adding “seven years of Yemeni suffering is enough and the time has come to end the war.”
 
He added, "It is tragic that there are many victims, women and children, and we will cooperate with the mine action programme."