News - Yemen: The National Military Committee announced Thursday the unilateral and final opening of the Highway crossing and road in Taiz.

Brigadier General Shukri Noaman said that all the obstacles remnants from the war in checkpoints have been removed from the road as a first stage, waiting for the completion of the opening of the road from the other side.

Brigadier-General Nouman clarified that the fifty-sixty road was opened as a humanitarian, not a military road and for the civilians.

He stated that the committee has explicit directives from the leadership of the revolution to open a number of other roads to the city of Taiz, stressing that they will be opened as soon as they are established.

He said: We are waiting for positive responses from the other side, according to the promises of the mediators, to complete opening and securing the road from their areas of control.

Brigadier General Nouman stressed the need to remove the militarization of roads of all Taiz completely, expressing the committee's readiness to receive representatives of the other side for discussion and consensus.

For its part, the Human Rights Office in Taiz welcomed this step by the national party, recommending the need to open the most important road in the governorate, in Al-Nour road, leading to the city of Taiz.

The office called on the United Nations to put pressure on the Saudi-backed forces to deal positively with the initiative of the Supreme Political Council

He also called on the Saudi-backed side to positively deal with this road as for building confidence to establish complete peace in Taiz and Yemen in general.

In early April, after Yemen’s Supreme Political Council declared a voluntary and unilateral three-day pause in retaliatory strikes against targets in Saudi Arabia, the UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced the nationwide ceasefire, for the first time since 2016.

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 ."

However, in light of UN silence, the Saudi-led aggression was still obstructing flights to the Sana'a International Airport in Yemen’s capital and detaining fuel ships that were headed to the country. The fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside, including shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl.
 
In early June, the United Nations announced that Yemen’s National Salvation Government and the US-Saudi coalition have agreed to renew the two-month truce after days of negotiations and promises to fulfill the terms of the agreement.
 
The UN envoy noted that the truce was extended under the same terms as the previous one.

The United Nations continues to condone the crimes committed by the Saudi-led aggression. It only holds the coalition responsible for crimes when it seeks to blackmail the Kingdom and oblige it to pay millions of dollars. The UN is not concerned with the souls of the victims, as it provided cover for this aggression for years, and kept silent in the face of many of its criminal practices, whether through raids or sieges.