News - Yemen: Yemen Petroleum Company in Sana'a denounced the recent briefing given by the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg to the Security Council regarding the smooth entry of fuel tankers, stressing that it is misleading.

The Executive Director of the Company, Ammar Al-Adra'i, in a press statement, Monday, condemned the US-Saudi’s continued detention of fuel tankers in the Red Sea, despite the announced UN-sponsored truce.

He said, "There are gasoline and gas tankers held for more than 10 days by the US-Saudi aggression."

Al-Adra'i added, "Today, a gasoline ship was released after it was detained for more than 15 days, during which it incurred delay fines."

The UN envoy had told the Security Council in a recent briefing on Yemen that fuel ships had flowed into the ports of Hodeidah, as a result of the UN-sponsored truce, ignoring the fact that the aggression is still holding fuel ships coming to the ports of Hodeidah in flagrant violation of the truce.

Earlier, the Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) announced that it was agreed to enter 18 fuel ships during the period (June 2 - August 2), but the coalition of aggression allowed only seven out of 18 ships to enter the port of Hodeidah.

YPC confirmed that the number of ships currently detained by the US-Saudi aggression are "Sundus" and "Anne Victus" gasoline tankers, and the gas tanker"Lady Sarah".

The company stated that the number of fuel ships that were allowed to enter the port of Hodeidah since the beginning of the truce until July 14, are 22 out of 36 ships, while the total period of detention amounted to 197 days.

It pointed out that the number of ships that entered, compared to what was agreed upon, was 39%, indicating that the total delay fines incurred by the ships that entered during the truce period amounted to $3.94 million, and this indicates that the commitment to the truce is still below the required level.

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.

Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.

A suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates is experienced under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.