News - Yemen: The Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Abdullah Daris, affirmed that the demand for paying salaries from Yemeni oil revenues is a legitimate right and a humanitarian entitlement, not a maneuver or impossible demand.

The Minister of Oil and Minerals explained that cutting salaries and closing the port of Hodeidah and Sanaa International Airport is a crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of all international covenants and laws.

He pointed out that the US-Saudi aggression are looting and selling Yemeni oil and gas, depriving the Yemeni citizen of his most basic rights amid international complicity and silence regarding these crimes, pointing out that the aggression countries deliberately cut the salaries of civil and military employees to bring the Yemeni people to their knees.

Minister Daris indicated that the aggression controls the resources of vital sectors that generate billions of riyals per month, which are sufficient to pay the salaries of employees.

"They control the oil and gas sectors and companies and loot their revenues, yet they evade the humanitarian entitlement represented in paying salaries and opening the Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport," he added.

The Minister of Oil stressed that if the National Salvation Government is handed over oil and gas revenues and was enabled to supervise the oil sectors and companies, it is ready to pay the salaries of employees in all governorates without exception.

A UN-brokered truce lasted for six months in the seven-year-old war waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies supported by US and western countries against Yemen.

The truce, however, expired on Sunday amid the Saudi-led coalition’s constant violations of the agreement and its refusal to properly lift a siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen since the beginning of the war.

Although the US-Saudi aggression seeks to extend the truce, it with UN complicity, is still evading the implementation of humanitarian and legal entitlements, foremost of which is the paying employee salaries and entering fuel ships to the port of Hodeidah, which made Sana’a refuse to extend the temporary truce.