News - Yemen: The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Ahmed Hajar, confirmed that the salaries of employees have not been paid for four years.

Hajar indicated that the US-Saudi aggression divided the Central Bank of Yemen after transferring it to four banks in Aden, Hadhramaut, Mahra and Marib under Saudi supervision.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance said that “the change of the Central Bank of Yemen into a depositor to the National Bank of Saudi Arabia means its loss of sovereignty”.

A UN-brokered truce in Yemen first came into effect on 2 April, and for an initial two months.  It was renewed for another two months in June.

The truce in Yemen is still holding, and efforts are continuing to obtain an expanded agreement that includes additional elements that can improve humanitarian needs and address economic issues. That is the headline repeated in UN Representative Hans Grundberg's new briefing to the UN Security Council.

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.

The UN justifies the aggression’s repudiation of the full implementation of the entitlements, and delays the transition to the discussion of salaries to ensure the adoption of a mechanism for disbursing the salaries of all employees from the revenues of oil, gas and ports.

Double standards regarding the violations of the forces of aggression and its provocative practices is a double UN policy that has brought the crisis in Yemen to its current level of misery and deprivation that has affected everyone far from justice and the realization of the rights of the Yemeni people.

The Supreme Political Council requires, in order to extend the truce, the commitment of the Saudi-led aggression to pay the salaries of all employees and the rest of the services, as a natural entitlement that is not subject to extortion. Before that, the complete blockade of Sana’a airport and the port of Hodeidah must be lifted as a criterion for demonstrating the seriousness and goodwill in the faltering peace process in Yemen.

The extension includes a commitment by the Saudi-led aggression and the Salvation Government to intensify negotiations to reach an expanded agreement as soon as possible.