Civil Service Minister: The oil and gas resources are the guarantee to pay all salaries

SANAA, Aug. 20 (YPA) – The Minister of Civil Service, Salim Al-Moghales, confirmed on Friday the national Salvation government’s  commitment to open an account for salaries, while the Saudi led coalition repudiated its commitment to cover the gap since the Stockholm negotiations.

“We accepted the opening of a salary account in the Sweden negotiations to block the pretexts, and the oil and gas resources are the guarantee to pay all salaries,” Al- Moghales said.

For his part, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance Ahmed Hajar said “The salaries owed to employees on the public treasury exceed 4 years.”

He added, “Government employees represent 34% of the size of the workforce, and this indicates the extent of the impact of salaries in terms of returning them or cutting them in advance, stressing that the aggression coalition has fragmented the Central Bank of Yemen after transferring it to 4 independent banks in Aden, Hadramout, Mahra and Marib under Saudi supervision.”

He explained that the transformation of the Central Bank of Yemen into a depositor with the National Bank of Saudi Arabia means its loss of sovereignty.

E.M