Yemeni Presidential: We have implemented all truce pledges and the Houthis are intransigent
The Yemeni Presidential Command Council said that the Council and the Coalition to Support Legitimacy have fulfilled all the truce humanitarian and military commitments, but Houthi continues to be intransigent.
Legitimacy allowed fuel ships to reach Hodeida port, facilitated the opening of Sana’a airport and made important concessions on the adoption of passports issued by Houthi areas, temporarily during the truce, as well as the observance of the comprehensive ceasefire resolution despite militia violations.
According to the official news agency Saba, Rashad Al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Command Council, and his deputies received, in the temporary capital of Aden, the British Ambassador to Yemen, Richard Oppenheim, and handed him a written message of congratulations from Queen Elizabeth II, on the occasion of the National Day. The meeting discussed the procedures for extending the requested truce, as Houthi militias continue to be intransigent towards their commitments under the Armistice Agreement.
“The leadership council and the Legitimacy Support Coalition have fulfilled all their humanitarian and military obligations under the humanitarian truce”, al-Alimi said.
Al-Alimi expressed his appreciation for the UK’s efforts to establish peace and stability in Yemen. He stressed “the importance of international and British pressure to push the Houthi militias to implement their obligations regarding the Taiz crossings and other governorates, and to pay the salaries of employees from fees paid for oil derivative ships”.
Al-Alimi stressed the need to mobilize international support for the reforms of the Presidential Council and the Yemeni government, especially in rehabilitating and improving services in liberated areas, foremost in the interim capital Aden.
Earlier, head of the Yemeni government parliamentary delegation Abdul Karim Shaiban said that the delegation is scheduled to arrive next Wednesday in Jordan to meet the UN envoy to Yemen and hold negotiations with the Houthis to lift the siege of Taiz under the truce.
The siege of Taiz by Houthi militias has exacerbated the suffering of women and children, obstructed access to food, medicine, and oil derivatives, and restricted the movement of citizens internally, especially to the most vulnerable groups, children, and the elderly.
The opening of roads between Taiz and neighboring governorates is part of a two-month truce that came into effect on April 2, but the Houthis refuse to open any crossing into the city, which has been under siege for seven and a half years.
