YEMEN Press Agency

Saudi-backed exiled Hadi’s group violates Stockholm agreement

SANAA, April 16 (YPA) – Yemen’s Seiyun city meeting was held by Saudi-backed exiled Hadi’s group has violated the UN-brokered Stockholm agreement that calls to end the war and achieve peace in Yemen.

At the meeting, Saudi-UAE-backed Hadi’s group called to escalate militarily against described the other party in the capital Sanaa, describing it as a terrorist group in a flagrant violation of the Sweden’s agreement.

On Sunday, the group held a meeting in an attempt to establish a separate parliament in the south of Yemen and to move new military action in Hodeidah in despite of exerting efforts by the UN to achieve a political solution between the parties.

Saudi Arabia has sent military reinforcements to Seiyun city under a pretext of securing the city for parliamentarians’ meeting, but the troops came to take over the city in light of a conflict between Saudi Arabia and the UAE to control the largest and oil-rich province of Hadramout in Yemen to loot its wealth, according to officials.

Since March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition have intervened in Yemen’s sovereignty and internal affairs, and waged a military operating against the Yemeni army and people in flagrant violations of the international conventions.

The four-year-old coalition war on Yemen has killed over 10,000 Yemenis, mostly women and children, displaced more than 3 million, according to the United Nations.

Ali Ahsan