News - Yemen: President Mahdi Al-Mashat, met, Saturday, with Parliament head, Yahya Al-Rae'e, discussing the role of the Parliament in promoting cohesion and alignment to face the challenges that the country is going through under the aggression and siege .

The meeting touched on developments on the national scene, the progress of implementing the UN-sponsored truce, and National party's commitment to implement its terms, despite the reluctance of Saudi-backed party to implement what was agreed, especially US-Saudi aggression's continued detention of oil derivatives ships and the failure to operate flights in accordance with the terms of the truce.

President Al-Mashat stressed the importance of the parliament’s role in positively dealing with national issues related to confronting the repercussions of the aggression and siege.

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 Saudi-led aggression continues to violate the truce by detaining new fuel ships, despite their inspection and obtaining permits from the United Nations, insisting on the closure of Sana’a Airport, as well as, the fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside. Shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl, including a failed advance carried out by mercenaries towards Army and Popular Committee sites south of Marib.