News - Yemen: The Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) announced that the US-Saudi aggression seized the diesel ship, Tiara, despite its inspection and obtaining entry permits from the UN, in a new and deliberate violation of the UN-brokered truce.

"By seizing the diesel ship Tiara, the number of seized fuel ships has risen to four," the spokesman for Petroleum Company Issam Al-Mutawakel said in a statement, stressing that the UN has not yet played any positive role in acts of piracy committed by US-Saudi aggression.

Al-Mutawakel attached to the statement a copy of the UN permit for the diesel ship Tiara, which was inspected in Djibouti under the UN mechanisms, as well as the permit for the UN to allow the ship to enter the port of Hodeidah.

The spokesman of YPC announced on Friday that the US-Saudi aggression is currently holding three ships, including two diesel ships for the electricity sector and a diesel ship, all of which have UN permits.

He explained that it was agreed to enter 54 oil ships, of which only 33 ships had arrived since the start of the temporary truce, noting that the UN and its envoy did not move as required to pressure the US-Saudi aggression to enter the fuel ships.

Al-Mutawakel noted that the United Nations is only moving to collect financial aid in the name of the Yemeni people, while it is not moving to lift the siege on them.

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 deal stipulated halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen's lifeline Hodeidah 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.

When the period specified for the military and humanitarian truce was nearing its end, the US-Saudi aggression seemed to be in a hurry to adopt the option of extending it for the third time to freeze the battle in Yemen and its economic repercussions away from global energy markets.

The forces of aggression are pushing for an extension, not out of concern for peace, but rather out of fear that the escalation will add more complications to the international scene in addition to the crisis imposed by the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The employees of the Ministry of Electricity organized a protest sit-in, Saturday, calling on the UN to transcend the silence and take full responsibility for the piracy practiced by US-Saudi aggression on fuel ships.

They denounced the continued detention of fuel ships and their entry ban despite obtaining UN entry permits.

The Minister of Electricity, Mohammed Al-Bakhiti, expressed the Ministry of Electricity’s condemnation of the piracy practiced by the US-Saudi aggression, which affects the level of performance of the service sectors, resulting in an increase in the suffering of the Yemeni people.

A truce, the positive effects of which have not been felt by the citizens over the past months, despite its broad headlines. Commercial flights to Cairo are still stumbling until today, and the navy of aggression continues to pursue fuel ships without respect for agreements or any regard for international laws and norms.

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 truce has been renewed for an additional two months through 2 October, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced.

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.

The UN representative to Yemen Hans Grundberg confirmed that the extension of the truce in Yemen for two additional months "includes a commitment to provide fuel and its regular flow through the port of Hodeidah."

 

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