YPC employees continue protest in front of UN office

SANAA, April 10 (YPA) – Employees of the Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC), trade unions and its affiliated Bodies have on Friday staged a vigil in front of the UN Headquarters in the capital Sanaa after Friday prayer under the title “The United Nations is shield of aggression to target the country of faith.”

At the vigil, the company spokesman Amin al-Shabbati said the aggression coalition is coalition is continuing its arbitrary measures by detaining 13 oil ships carrying more than 330,000 tons of oil amid a shameful and dubious silence of United Nations and the international community.

 Al-Shabbati blamed the United Nations and the office of its envoy in Yemen for their inaction towards the continued holding of oil derivatives vessels by the Saudi-led coalition aggression.

 He said the United Nations silences and inaction enable the coalition to continue to detain oil derivatives ships.

Meanwhile, Protesters 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, especially since the Yemeni people are living in a confrontation with the Corona epidemic.

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

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

Today’s protest is part of an open sit-in organized by oil company employees, unions and bodies in front of the UN office for “370 days.”

E.M