Sanaa announces agreement with UN regarding “Safer” ship

SANAA, Nov. 18 (YPA) – Head of the committee on the implementation of the maintenance agreement for the Safer ship, Zaid Al-Washli, on Friday revealed an agreement with the United Nations to find an equivalent ship to unload the crude oil in the Safer reservoir.

Al-Washli stressed that the United Nations has committed to make the alternative tank capable of being exported, as was the floating ship “Safer”, indicating that Sanaa deals seriously with the Safer file, and separates it from the political and military situation as a humanitarian file.

Head of the committee hoped that there would be seriousness in the Safer file in order to avoid any catastrophe, holding the aggression coalition countries and the United Nations fully responsible, according to his statement to Al-Masirah TV channel.

Al-Washli indicated that Sanaa is doing its best to facilitate the mission of the United Nations, and it should move seriously.

This comes after the United Nations announced Thursday that it would begin early next year the process of unloading crude oil from the floating reservoir “Safer” off the coast of Hodeida province.

Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations in Yemen, David Gresley, stated that the field work to unload the oil from the Safer tanker would begin in the first quarter of 2023 and would take four months, according to what is prepared in the United Nations plan, which costs more than $100 million.

He stated that the United Nations plan, in its first emergency phase, aims to transfer 1.1 million barrels of crude oil in the tank, which was made 45 years ago, to another safe ship temporarily.

YPA