Sanaa: Pressures by the UN to stop paying half the salary to state employees

SANAA, July 27 (YPA) – The National Salvation Government in Sanaa has revealed details of pressures by the United Nations to stop the payment of half of the salary to the state employees.

The government said in a press statement, on Sunday, that the Supreme Political Council, the highest authority in Sanaa came under pressure from the coalition and the United Nations to stop the payment of half of the salary in exchange for allowing oil derivatives ships to enter the port of Hodeidah.

The statement added that the president of the Supreme Political Council Mahdi Al-Mashat rejected the offer and directed the government to continue  the payment in accordance with the previous decision regarding the disbursement of half of the salary every two months and the disbursement of the due of half of the salary before Eid al-Adha, according to the Saba news agency .

It pointed out that the Ministry of Finance addressed the Central Bank in Sana’a to pay half the salary of all civil servants, military and retirees, and use the accumulated balance in the account of the salary initiative in the bank branch in Hodeidah, which amounted to approximately 8.5 billion riyals to contribute to the disbursement of half of the salary.

The government called on the United Nations to keep up with the payment process so that employees receive half the salary, and they don’t resort to falsifying facts, as Its envoy Martin Griffiths recently did in an interview with the UN news website.

E.M