Parliament Speaker sends letters on consequences of holding fuel ships
SANAA, June 13 (YPA) – Speaker of the Parliament Yahya Ali al-Ra’i on Saturday sent letters to each of Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator in Yemen Lise Grande, and a number of heads of parliaments in the world.
The letters included an explanation of the repercussions and risks of continuing the arbitrary measures practiced by the aggression coalition countries led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, represented in the detention of ships carrying oil derivative, food and medicines, most recently a number of fuel ships off Jizan port and not allowing them to enter and unload their cargo in the port of Hodeidah.
The letters indicated that the aggression coalition prevents the entry of any oil shipment to the port of Hodeidah since the arrival of the ship “Destia Pucci” in early May, after holding it for a period exceeding 50 days despite obtaining a permit from the United Nations after arbitrary delay in the port of Djibouti, in violation of the Stockholm Agreement on facilitating movement for civilians and goods to and from the city of Hodeidah and its ports.
In the letters, the parliament speaker touched the catastrophic repercussions of these arbitrary measures that led to the crises in oil derivatives and gas, negative implications for all aspects of human, health and environmental life, and the increase in the living burdens on the Yemeni people, who live under siege exceeding five years, in a blatant violation of customs, charters and international law.
The letters noted to the coincidence of the siege imposed by the aggression coalition with the outbreak of Corona virus (COVID-19), which was accompanied by the return of those stranded abroad without providing the simplest precautions to confront the virus.
In this regard, the Parliament of the Republic of Yemen condemned the silence of the world’s parliaments, United Nations organizations and bodies, and the Security Council towards the aggression countries’ intransigence in preventing the arrival of fuel ships.
The parliament called for ending these obstacles to importing fuel, food and medicine shipments, and quick release of held ships, demanding parliamentary institutions, civil society organizations and all free people of the world to pressure their countries and governments of compel the coalition countries to stop the aggression and lift the siege on the Yemeni people.
YPA