Petroleum workers continue demand for full release of oil vessels

SANAA, March 20 (YPA) – Employees of the Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC), trade unions and its affiliated bodies have staged a vigil in front of the UN office in Sana’a after Friday prayers, with the title “Humanitarian Calls for Making Nations Entity.”

At the vigil, which was attended by The Executive Director of the YPC,  Yasser Al-Wahdi, the spokesman for the Company Amin al-Shabbati explained that the coalition is holding fourteen oil ships carrying more than 350,000 tons of oil in light of desprest need for them.

Al-Shabbati warned of a humanitarian disaster because the coalition  aggression continued to hold these ships for more than 130 days.

“The positions of the United Nations and the international community, which is now being mobilized to confront the coronavirus, which is spreading in the countries of the world, are absent in Yemen, even though the Yemeni people have been facing more serious than this virus for the past five years,” he said.

Meanwhile, protesters confirmed their continuation of the open sit-in protest in front of the UN Headquarters until all the demands of the protesters are met.

They issued a statement calling on the United Nations to fulfil its human rights mission and to carry out its tasks in Yemen, by putting more pressure on the Saudi-led coalition to release all detained oil vessels and to ensure that they are not detained in the future.

The statement reiterated the demand for lifting the embargo on Sana’a International Airport and Ras Issa facilities, and for protecting the Yemeni Petroleum company, its facilities, stations and its agents from targeting by the enemy.

E.M