Oil Minister, UN Coordinator in Sanaa discuss effects of continued piracy on fuel ships

SANAA, Sept. 04 (YPA) – The Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Daris, on Sunday discussed with the UN Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sanaa, David Gressly, the repercussions of the Saudi-led coalition’s continued piracy on fuel ships despite the temporary truce.

They touched on the human suffering that the Yemeni people are going through as a result of the continued detention of fuel ships.

In the meeting, Daris stressed the importance of urgent intervention to find solutions and treatments to ensure the entry and flow of fuel ships with ease and to prevent piracy on them as they are of a humanitarian nature.

The Minister of Oil called on the United Nations and international organizations to do their duty towards the human suffering of the Yemeni people resulting from preventing the entry of oil derivatives ships to the port of Hodeida.

He referred that there are nine oil derivatives ships still being held by the coalition, despite being subject to the inspection and investigation mechanism in Djibouti, and having obtained UN permits.

For his part, the UN Coordinator confirmed his keenness to coordinate and follow up to find solutions and remedies to the problem of holding fuel ships and work to neutralize them.

Gressly indicated that he realizes the extent of Yemenis’ need for oil derivatives, and that there is a real crisis that has caused the emergence of long queues of citizens’ cars in front of fuel filling stations.

YPA