News - Yemen: The National Military and Security Committee, Major General Yahya Al-Razami, stressed Thursday the need to address the humanitarian issue before any military negotiations.

He held a press conference at Sanaa airport upon his return from Amman, Major General Al-Razami saying: “Our priorities are to address the issue of paying salaries, lifting siege on airports and ports, before engaging in any other discussions or agreements in the military issue.”

He added: "We told mediators that a truce without paying salaries is useless and salaries’ issue cannot be overlooked, as it is a right and a basic demand for all Yemeni People."

Al-Razami continued: "We held a number of exceptional, informal meetings with the UN mediators without achieving any positive results against the Saudi-backed party who disavowed the implementation of the concluded understandings."

Major General Al-Razami denounced the statement of the UN representative, in which he was clearly biased towards the pro-aggression parties regarding the systematic state of escalation represented by the development of new fortifications and committing other hostile and sabotage acts in Taiz Governorate.

He explained that the military delegation sent repeated letters to the UN envoy and his military advisor regarding military violations and hostilities committed by the US-Saudi aggression in Al-Dabab area in Taiz governorate.

Regarding the UN lack of seriousness to address the Yemeni crisis, he pointed out that “If the United Nations and its envoy to Yemen are serious and keen on Yemen and its people, they should issue a statement clarifying who is the side that seeks premeditatedly to thwart these negotiations."

Earlier, the Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor stressed the need for the process of extending the humanitarian and military truce in Yemen to be linked to the economic and financial aspects, especially the addressing of employee salaries that have been cut off since the transfer of the Central Bank's functions to its branch in Aden, in 2016.

The UN envoy stressed that the issue of state employees' salaries will be a top priority that will be worked on.

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 2015.

The deal stipulates 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.

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.