News – Yemen: The General Authority for Regulating Land Transport Affairs condemned the severe damage suffered by trucks transporting goods and oil tankers, as a result of the block off the roads between Sana’a and the Saudi occupied governorates.

In a statement, the authority explained that road blocking has caused great suffering to drivers and owners of cargo trucks, the latest of which was losing many of them as a result of torrential rains in the Marib desert.

The authority confirmed that the mercenaries continued to block roads and did not accept the initiative of the Supreme Political Council to open roads. It pointed out to that truckers are subjected to abuse, threats, killing and looting by the so-called security check points of the mercenaries.

The authority said in its statement, "The mercenaries rejection of the initiatives launched by the Supreme Political Council revealed the malicious intentions of the other party, and its indifference to the suffering of the Yemeni people as a result of the siege." 

The statement called on the United Nations and humanitarian organizations to play their role in putting pressure on the forces of aggression and their mercenaries to open the roads and to accept the initiatives of the Supreme Political Council and the National Delegation, which it launched more than once, because of this effect in alleviating the suffering of the Yemeni people.

Last Monday, the Minister of Transport, Abdulwahab Al-Durra, stressed that extending a new period for the humanitarian truce and expanding its provisions to include important and vital issues is not feasible in general.

"We are nearing the completion of the second period of the humanitarian, UN-sponsored, truce, which was not fully implemented and did not help the suffering of citizens," he said.

Al-Durra stressed that the US-Saudi aggression continues to repudiate and delay the implementation of what was stated in the humanitarian truce, especially in the conduct of commercial flights to Cairo.

He reiterated the readiness of Sana'a Airport and its commitment to the security and safety requirements internationally approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

The Minister of Transport called for the need to open airports, ports and roads without restriction or condition, as they are a human right guaranteed by all international regulations, charters and agreements.

He also called for opening the main roads from Aden, Marib, Al Dhale'e, Taiz, Al Baidah, Hadramout and Al Jawf, and reducing transportation costs for goods and commodities to alleviate the suffering of the citizens.

Minister Al-Durra called on UN to abide by the Stockholm Agreement regarding the port of Hodeidah to rehabilitate what was destroyed by US-Saudi aggression.

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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