Aden (Union)
The Yemeni government confirmed that ending the siege of the city of Taiz is an urgent humanitarian priority that should be achieved immediately without any delay, while the Presidential Leadership Council stressed the importance of doubling US and international pressures in order to push the Houthi terrorist militia to fulfill its obligations under the armistice agreement.
Yemeni Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani said that the file of the Houthi terrorist militia’s siege of Taiz Governorate, which has entered its eighth year, and the largest city for a major prison, is a humanitarian issue before it is a political card for negotiation, and subjecting it to political bargaining is a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Al-Eryani explained that the Houthi militia has been procrastinating and intransigent in the file of ending the siege on Taiz governorate since the entry into force of the truce, amid blatant contradictions from denying the existence of a siege to expressing readiness to end it, and threatening to turn the crossings into cemeteries, which reveals the extent of its disregard for international efforts, and its blind hatred against the governorate. .
Al-Eryani pointed out that the siege of 5 million civilians in suffocated Taiz and the human tragedy they suffer, restricting the movement of the population and pushing them to take long, bumpy and dangerous roads, has caused the death of dozens of them in separate accidents and exorbitant material losses during the past years, and prevented the entry of relief and humanitarian aid into the overcrowded city. With hundreds of thousands, it is one of the most heinous violations of the terrorist Houthi militia.
Al-Eryani stressed that ending the siege of Taiz is an urgent humanitarian priority that should be achieved immediately without any delay, two months after the reopening of Sanaa airport and three months for the full operation of the port of Hodeidah, and the prosecution of those responsible for the siege from the leaders of the militias in international courts as a full-fledged war crime.
In addition, the President of the Presidential Command Council in Yemen, Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, stressed during his reception yesterday evening, at his residence in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the US envoy to Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, the importance of doubling the American and international pressures, in order to push the Houthi militias to fulfill their obligations under the terms of the agreement. The armistice agreement, warning against using the revenues of oil derivatives and humanitarian facilities through the ports of Hodeidah to support its war effort and hostile operations with terrorist organizations.
Al-Alimi praised the fraternal and humanitarian role played by the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in preventing a comprehensive collapse of the state and limiting the repercussions of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world created by the Houthi militias.
For his part, the US envoy praised the economic and service reforms led by the Presidential Leadership Council, stressing the US administration’s keenness to support these reforms and enhance the Yemeni government’s access to all resources.
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