Abdullah Abu Deif (Aden, Cairo)
A Yemeni official confirmed that pressure on the Houthi terrorist militia to abide by the terms of the expired UN armistice is a prerequisite for its extension, stressing that the Houthi militia is determined to monopolize all of the country’s capabilities without taking into account the rights of the Yemeni people.
This comes as the supervisory committee for the implementation of the agreement to release and exchange detainees concluded its sixth meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after 6 days of consultations to determine the names that will be released.
Majed Al-Fadael, Undersecretary of the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights and member of the Supervisory Committee for the Exchange of Prisoners and Abductees, told Al-Ittihad that “there is a clear limit of conditions and obligations that must be achieved in order to extend the UN truce,” stressing that the terrorist Houthi militia is determined to monopolize all the country’s capabilities without Taking into account the rights of the Yemeni people that the legitimate government is trying to achieve by sitting with the militias in order to achieve them.
Al-Fadael pointed out that the Houthi militia is still violating the truce, threatening the capabilities of the Yemeni people and assaulting them, noting that many violations have been documented during the past period by the Ministry of Human Rights, proving the Houthis’ lack of respect for the truce and its continued attacks on the Yemeni people, while it continues. Compulsory recruitment operations in areas controlled by terrorist militias.
For his part, the Executive Director of the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (Rasd), Mutahar Al-Badhiji, documented many violations related to laying mines and bombing cities, especially the besieged city of Taiz, which represents a document against the violations of terrorist militias in the way they deal with the Yemeni people.
Al-Badhiji stressed in statements to Al-Ittihad that there is a need for more oversight and strictness to take greater guarantees regarding the extension of the truce during the coming period, especially with the Houthi militia’s failure to abide by the conditions it signed during the last period, which led to more violations that were documented against the people. Yemeni.
In another context, the United Nations announced yesterday that the Yemeni parties have made progress in the prisoners’ file, after 6 days of consultations in the Jordanian capital, Amman, to finalize the lists.
In a statement, the office of the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said that “the supervisory committee for the implementation of the agreement on the release and exchange of detainees between the parties in Yemen concluded its sixth meeting on Sunday in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after six days of consultations to determine the names of the detainees who will be released.”
This comes within the preparations of an agreement concluded in March of this year, which includes 2,223 prisoners and abductees, between the legitimate Yemeni government and the terrorist Houthi militia.
According to the statement, “the parties agreed to intensify efforts to finally determine the lists of detainees and to unify them by all parties as soon as possible.”
It was also agreed to facilitate visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross to detention centers to assist in verifying identities, and to establish a joint committee between the parties to support the process of verifying the identity of the names of detainees on the lists.
The UN envoy expressed his hope that “the parties will maintain their commitment to their agreement, and spare no effort to achieve a successful release of detainees within the framework of the UN-facilitated process.”
He stressed that identifying the names is an essential step towards this end, while expressing his “regret that the parties did not agree to release the detainees quickly, which will lead to the detainees and their families bearing more suffering and waiting for a longer time until they are reunited.”
Grundberg urged the Yemeni parties to finalize their lists as soon as possible with priority given to the unconditional release of all sick, wounded and detained children, as well as arbitrarily detained persons, political detainees and journalists.
It is expected that the parties will meet in the coming weeks after further progress is made on the lists, under the supervision of the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Last March, the United Nations submitted a proposal for an exchange deal that included 2,223 prisoners and abductees between the Yemeni government and terrorist militias, but the agreement was not finally implemented due to the procrastination and intransigence of the putschists.
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