News - Yemen: The National Military Committee for the Consolidation of the UN-sponsored truce and the Opening of Roads said that it had unilaterally opened a road leading to Taiz, in implementation of the initiative of the Supreme Political Council, to alleviate the suffering of citizens in Taiz Governorate.

The committee stated in a statement that the opening of the Fifty-Sixty Road came in light of the continuous intransigence of the aggression and its mercenaries and their rejection of all the initiatives put forward by the Military Committee during the last period.

The Military Committee announced in a press conference on Thursday that the road was ready and opened to citizens of Taiz governorate.

The committee said that upon the arrival of the human rights and media delegation that accompanied the field teams working to remove the barriers, the field teams and media crews in the last berm, 500 meters from the Saudi-backed side, were exposed to heavy bullets from snipers affiliated with the aggression militias and its mercenaries in Taiz.

It pointed out that the aggression militia and mercenaries had prevented taxi buses that were traveling by citizens who tried to cross through the Al-Noor City (Fifty-Sixty) road. When the buses arrived at the last point towards the control of the mercenaries of the aggression, they prevented them from entering Taiz, returned them and threatened to kill them if they tried to cross this road.

The National Military Committee deplored that the mercenaries of aggression continued to close the Fifty-Sixty line to the citizens. It emphasized that it worked to rehabilitate the road, remove all debris, barriers and earth mounds, secure the road completely, and make sure, through field teams, that the road is clear of the remnants of clashes and cluster bombs, and put up road signs for citizens.

The National Military Committee also confirmed that it spared no effort to alleviate the suffering of the citizens in Taiz, but that all its attempts, national initiatives and executive steps were faced by the mercenaries of aggression with rejection, intransigence, prevention, and finally the shooting and detention of citizens who tried to cross.

It pointed out that the behavior of the aggression and its mercenaries confirms that it does not seek to open the roads, and wants to keep the suffering of the people of Taiz continuing to t invest in it politically and militarily.

The Military Committee reiterated that it will continue to make efforts to open roads in Taiz, and a number of governorates that the aggression and its mercenaries continue to deny opening. 

In early June, the National Salvation Government announced the implementation of a unilateral initiative, to raise the earthen barriers in preparation for the opening of a road inside the city of Taiz.

Negotiations of opening roads in Jordan are without outcomes after a 2-round discussion. The National Committee says that the talks do not go beyond limited roads in Taiz.

The Saudi-backed party does not have a decision to talk about the rest of the roads and closed outlets, which is a short conception of comprehensive solutions that include closed outlets in more than one governorate, including Al-Dhalae and Marib.

President Mahdi Al-Mashat affirmed that if the military negotiating committee in Jordan does not see new signs regarding closed roads to alleviate suffering of Yemeni people, the committee will announce a unilateral initiative.

He added that the US-Saudi aggression is sparing no effort to exploit the suffering of the citizens in Taiz governorate, explaining that there is a varying agenda of the Saudi-backed government that uses the suffering and difficult conditions in Taiz and the various governorates.

The Chairman of National Military CommitteeYahya Abdullah Al-Razami has called on the representatives of the United Nations to go with the Committee to Taiz Governorate and examine the reality to prove the seriousness of the National side to know the party obstructing the opening of humanitarian outlets.

He reiterated the National side's keenness to alleviate the suffering of the people of Taiz and all the people of the country, and affirm that the ball is in the court of the Saudi-backed side.
 
Razami considered that the Saudi-backed side must realize the humanitarian responsibility towards the Yemeni people, who are still suffering from an unjust and brutal siege and aggression.

He has confirmed that the Saudi-backed government is trying to make the issue of roads a subject for political and propaganda exploitation and rejects practical initiatives that would contribute to alleviating the suffering of citizens in Taiz and the other governorates.