Sanaa, Riyadh overcome most important obstacles in peace process: Abdul-Salam

SANAA, Feb. 09 (YPA) – Head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, revealed on Thursday a meeting that took place between the delegation he heads and Saudi officials, which “resulted in overcoming the most important obstacles facing the road map.”

“The road map included raising everyone’s concerns,” Abdul-Salam told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, stressing that the Sanaa delegation affirmed that the necessity of addressing the urgent humanitarian issue that the Yemeni people are suffering from throughout the country.

He pointed out, in the same context, that “addressing the humanitarian file, and the opening of airports, ports and roads, is a matter that will reflect positively, especially the political dialogue.”

The meeting added that the peace plan, which the two parties reached earlier, had focused on a comprehensive ceasefire in the country, opening all land, air and sea ports, merging the Central Bank, and completing “all-for-all” prisoner exchange.

Abdul-Salam confirmed, during the meeting, that “the majority position of the countries of the world is their concern for the safety of their ships and to ensure that they are not exposed to harm.” However, the Sanaa delegation confirmed, according to Abdel Salam, that “the continuation of military operations in the Red Sea, targeting Israeli ships or those heading to Israel ports until the end of the aggression and siege on the Gaza Strip.

He stressed Sanaa’s position in support of the oppressed Palestinian people, noting in his speech that “if the injustice and siege on the Palestinian people stops, the support operations will stop without a doubt.”

Abdul-Salam confirmed that the peace scene in Yemen is “going well,” explaining that the operations of the Yemeni armed forces in the Red Sea are “separate from the path of the peace process.”

“The West’s hints at threatening the solution at home are an attempt to pressure,” he added.

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