Aden (Union)
Hadi Haig, head of the Yemeni government committee on prisoners and abductees, announced the legitimate government’s readiness to exchange prisoners and abductees with the Houthi terrorist militia to include everyone on both sides without exception, noting that the terrorist militias are bargaining and manipulating the humanitarian file.
Haig said in a press statement: “Al-Houthi rejects its members and selects from them the special people who belong to a certain group or segment, to the exclusion of others.”
“We declare our readiness to exchange all for all to get out of the complications of selectivity in choosing prisoners,” he added.
He stressed that the governmental committee accepts international supervision through the United Nations or any body agreed upon to implement the agreement.
He pointed out that “the prisoners’ file is humanitarian and it is inappropriate to manipulate it and bargain with other files at its expense.”
The spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, had confirmed in a previous statement yesterday evening, that the coalition was making unremitting efforts to release all prisoners and reunite the families, explaining that the Houthis’ intransigence in the recent Amman talks had thwarted efforts to release all prisoners of war.
He pointed out that the coalition offered the Houthis to visit their prisoners and did not find from them seriousness and sincere determination, pointing out that they give priority to the fuel file over the file of the most humane prisoners.
In another context, the Yemeni government warned of the collapse of the oil tanker “Safer” moored off the coast of Hodeidah, calling for serious interaction with the United Nations initiative to bridge the funding gap for the emergency rescue operation and transfer the oil to a safe ship. The government said, in the words of the Minister of Water and Environment, Engineer Tawfiq Al-Sharjabi, that “the explosion of the tanker Safer could happen at any moment if action is not taken urgently to avoid an imminent humanitarian and environmental catastrophe because it has not been subject to maintenance since the Houthi militia coup against the state in 2014. The United Nations was able to reach the tanker to carry out the necessary maintenance.” In a press statement, Al-Sharjabi stressed the need to urgently empty the oil from the Safer reservoir, as it is the only option left to avoid a catastrophe that will destroy the biodiversity of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and close the international shipping line linking the continents, which may lead to a breach of international peace and security.
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