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Lack of Action by UN to Maintain Oli Tanker, Safer

News - Yemen: The Supervisory Committee for the Implementation of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and the Comprehensive Assessment of the Safer Floating Reservoir expressed its regret, due to the UN's failure to implement the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed on March 5 of this year.

In a statement, the committee stated that the memorandum of understanding stipulated that the UN will prepare an operational plan in accordance with the contents of the memorandum of understanding, but the UN did not abide by this despite the passage of more than two months since its signing.

The Supervisory Committee considered that any funding for the project, in light of the UN’ failure to implement the terms of the memorandum of understanding, would go into UN operating expenses, in a repetition of the fate of the amount previously allocated to the maintenance and evaluation process.

The committee also renewed the call for the UN to deal with the necessary seriousness, commensurate with the scale of the potential disaster as a result of the continued deterioration of the Safer Reservoir's situation, and the wide environmental repercussions that it might have in the Red Sea.

Earlier, The Supervisory Committee for the Execution of the Urgent Maintenance Agreement and the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Floating Oil Tank Safer, has renewed its strong dissatisfaction with the continued disregard by the United Nations of its obligations towards the reservoir. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) continued to disavow the implementation of the urgent maintenance agreement and the comprehensive evaluation of the floating tank Safer, which was signed in November 2020.

In a statement, the committee warned of the repercussions of the deterioration of the situation of the Safer Reservoir after nearly seven years without any maintenance of the reservoir, which makes the level of an environmental disaster in the Red Sea more significant than ever, which will affect Yemen and neighboring countries for many years. 

The UNOPS submitted its implementation plan in violation of the agreement last May; completely ignoring the agreement and its obligations towards the Safer reservoir, despite knowing that the status of the reservoir could no longer tolerate further delays.

While the committee called for the immediate implementation of the agreement, it holds the UNOPS fully responsible for any leak or explosion of the reservoir, and the resulting unprecedented environmental disaster in the Red Sea. "The responsibility to squander the funds allocated to implement the agreement, which the United Nations Office for Project Services refuses to disclose and its fate, despite the multiple demands directed at it to work on the principle of transparency before public opinion."

UN spent more than 3 and a half million dollars out of the maintenance budget of more than 9 million dollars and no work was carried out.

Sana'a is keen to implement the maintenance agreement:

The head of the Safer Maintenance Committee, Ibrahim  Al-Seraji, confirmed that Sana'a had no interest in obstructing the agreement and maintenance, denying that there were any intentions to use the ship for a military purpose, and that these allegations were false. Al-Seraji pointed out that there was a proposal that the oil inside the ship be sold and payment is paid to the Central Bank in Sana'a under the supervision of the United Nations to pay the salaries of the state employees, but the coalition party refused this and wanted the payment to be given to the mercenaries in Aden. "This is kind of crazy, if they think we'll hand them the ship and give them money to fight us with," he said.

He asserted that they always have access to the ship and get updates through their technical teams. He expressed his fear that deterioration of the ship is getting worse and technical teams would not be able to fix it.
 

#Yemen #UN #Safer #US-Saudi Aggression 22-05-11
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