Yemeni diplomats confirm UN’s inability, its envoy’s failure
SANAA, July 19 (YPA) – Leading Yemeni top diplomats have agreed on the failure of the United Nations in its mission to Yemen, and the fragility and superficiality of the role of UN envoy Martin Griffiths in Yemen, after he was unable to launch oil derivatives ships held by Saudi-led coalition countries, despite receiving UN permits to enter the port of Hodeidah.
Yemeni ambassador to Iran Ibrahim al-Dailami explained how the UN envoy recorded a major failure during his time in Yemen on all levels.
Al-Dailami told Al-Masirah TV that the Secretary-General of the United Nations called for a cease-fire in Yemen to confront COVID-19, while other countries responded to that by providing more military and political support to Saudi-led aggression.
The siege got worst during the past few months preventing all needed supplies and basics from getting into the country, he added.
For his part, Mohammed Abdulsalam, Head of the National Delegation, said in a tweet, about the UN’s envoy, that “from his recent talk, it becomes clear that the UN envoy has moved away from his mission and has become fully involved with the forces of aggression against Yemen, fully adopting their views.”
He added that “the UN envoy is prolonging the absurd aggressive war and clouds the effects of the unjust siege, and this negative position makes him a part of the problem.”
In the same context, a member of the National delegation Abdul Majid Hansh said Yemenis do not count on the role of the United Nations in finding a solution to the aggression and the blockade against Yemen
“The UN envoy did not achieve anything during his mission,” he said. “Griffiths is trying to please the aggression in order to continue in office.”
“The Yemeni people only wish that foreign intervention will stand at the same table,” he told al-Masirah TV on Saturday night.
“The absence of the United Nations has contributed to the continuation of crimes against our people by the coalition of aggression,” he added.
He continued: When Yemenis are bombarded in cold blood, we don’t hear from the envoy, but he is nervous and worried, and in Marib’s operations, we hear his condemnation and his tough positions alongside aggression and mercenaries.” “Yemen is being torn apart under the auspices of the United Nations, and the latter collects aid and distributes it as salaries for its staff in Yemen.”
The United Nations and its envoy to Yemen are facing widespread criticism from various political parties at home and abroad, taking it as a bias towards the Saudi-UAE war coalition and the forces supporting it represented in the United States and the United Kingdom, extending the war and the blockade.
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