UN provided draft agreements for several files in Sweden talks: Abdulsalam
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 13 (YPA) – Head of the Yemeni negotiating delegation in Sweden consultations, Mohammed Abdulsalam, on Thursday said that the United Nations provided more than one draft agreement.
“We received yesterday a new framework for new security, military and political arrangements, but the other side (Saudi-backed delegation) did not cooperate,” said Abdulsalam in a press conference held in the Swedish city of Rimbaud.
With regard to Hodeidah file, Abdulsalam said that they agreed that the United Nations should have a role in inspecting vessels at the port of Hodeidah and in humanitarian facilities and corridors leading to Sanaa, Taiz and Hajjah province.”
He explained that there are two phases of the military deployment in Hodeidah to ensure the neutralization of the port and vital installations from any military conflict.
On Sanaa airport, he said “Several proposals were put forward, including inspection of planes in Aden and Sayoud airports.”
“We suggested that the planes go to the airports of Egypt and Jordan to be inspected there, as both countries following Saudi-led coalition,” he added. He explained that Aden airport “is not fully safe and the arbitrary procedures have proved that the airport failed to recover Yemenis stranded abroad, whose number exceeds 10,000 citizens.”
On the economic file, he said that they had made many concessions but that the other side tried “to give it a political touch.”
He referred that the economic committee had achieved a rate of 80-90 per cent in the issue of salaries.
“We demanded that the United Nations oversees the revenues and paying salaries, but the other party wants to put the inspection process in a certain area,” he said.
Regarding the issue of prisoners, Abdulsalam noted that great efforts have been made, and the national committee for prisoner affairs has all the names in completed and corrected lists.
He hoped that the prisoner exchange would be conducted in full humanitarian way and the release of all prisoners in Sanaa, Aden, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
“What we have reached is a positive thing,” he said.
He added “these consultations were certainly better than their predecessors,” expressing his hope that the war completely stopped before they return from Sweden.
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