Aden (Al Ittihad)
Yesterday, Yemeni Minister of Oil Saeed Al-Shamasi said that oil revenues, which constitute 75% of the state budget, and cover employee salaries and appropriations for food imports, are threatened with stopping and being damaged as a result of the terrorist Houthi militia attacks on economic facilities.
The Yemeni news agency, Saba, stated that this came during Minister Al-Shamasy’s meeting in Aden with the head of the European Union mission, Gabriel Monrera, and the ambassadors of France, Germany and Switzerland accredited to Yemen, to discuss the dimensions of the humanitarian aspects of targeting oil facilities, and their impact on the efforts of the peace process in Yemen.
In a related context, Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani said that General Michael Beary, head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA), and his team, survived a landmine explosion planted by the Houthi militia, while a convoy of the mission was passing through one of the main streets in the “Al-Hali” area of the city. Al-Hodeidah, embodies the magnitude of the danger posed by these mines to the lives, present and future of Yemenis.
In a statement to the Yemeni news agency, Saba, Muammar Al-Eryani said that the incident reveals the imminent and sustainable danger posed by the mines that were randomly planted by the Houthi militia in cities, villages, residential neighborhoods, farms, mosques, main roads and public markets, whose victims are innocent civilians, children and women.
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