News - Yemen: The head of the National Delegation confirmed that the countries of the aggression did not abide by the terms of the UN-sponsored truce, as they wasted a month and a half of the truce without any trip to and from Sana’a International Airport.

"The terms of the truce stipulate two flights per week and to two specific destinations, Amman and Cairo, but the Saudi-led aggression did not abide by,” Mohammed Abdulsalam wrote in his Twitter account on Wednesday evening. “It wasted a month and a half of the truce without any trip to and from Sana’a International Airport."

He stressed that what the situation requires is to speed up the conduct of scheduled flights, and to make use of the remaining time to make up for what was missed.

The Supreme Political Council referred on Wednesday the request to extend the truce to study, according to the evaluation of the current phase of the truce, which will end on the second of next June.

In early April, the UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced the nationwide ceasefire, for the first time since 2016, saying the two-month truce would be eligible for renewal with the consent of parties. The truce meant to halt all military operations in the country and to bring the foreign military invasion to an end.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the truce "must be a first step to ending Yemen’s devastating war," urging the warring parties to build on the opportunity to "resume an inclusive and comprehensive Yemeni political process."

The deal stipulates halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen’s lifeline al-Hudaydah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a "to predetermined destinations in the region."

The two-month humanitarian and military truce under the auspices of the United Nations entered into effect on the second of last April and ends on the second of June 2022. Over the past weeks, the forces of aggression have been obstructing the implementation of the truce, refusing to allow flights to reach Sana’a International Airport.

The humanitarian truce in Yemen provides for the operation of two commercial flights per week to and from Sana’a Airport during the two months of the truce to Jordan and Egypt.

The Civil Aviation and Meteorological Authority called on the United Nations to "adhere to the provisions of the truce by operating the 16 agreed-upon flights during the remainder of the truce, to alleviate the suffering of Yemeni citizens."

 

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