Al-Mashat: UN Must Double Efforts to End Injustice against Yemeni People
President Mahdi Al-Mashat stressed the importance of making extra efforts by the UN to end the injustice against the Yemeni people, and that it bears responsibility to stop all forms of siege imposed on the country.
This came during his meeting, Wednesday, with the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs “OCHA” in Yemen, William David Grisley.
The meeting discussed the humanitarian situation in Yemen, and the humanitarian crisis that the Yemeni people are going through as a result of the US-Saudi aggression against Yemen and the siege imposed on it. During the meeting, they discussed aspects of cooperation with United Nations organizations in the humanitarian field.
President Al-Mashat pointed out the need for the UN to bear its responsibility in empowering the Yemeni people with their wealth, in order to achieve the payment of salaries to all employees, as it is natural human rights without which peace cannot be achieved.
He explained that the Yemeni people are suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis in the world in light of the continuation of aggression and siege on it, and the interruption of the salaries of all state employees, while US-Saudi aggression is looting Yemen’s oil and gas wealth.
Al-Mashat called on the UN to seek to alleviate the increasing human suffering of the Yemeni people as a result of the continued US-Saudi aggression and Siege.
A UN-brokered truce lasted for six months in the seven-year-old war waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies supported by US and western countries against Yemen.
The truce, however, expired on Sunday amid the Saudi-led coalition’s constant violations of the agreement and its refusal to properly lift a siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen since the beginning of the war.
The US-Saudi aggression, with UN complicity, is still evading the implementation of humanitarian and legal entitlements, foremost of which is the paying employee salaries, which made Sana’a refuse to extend the temporary truce.
Sana’a insists on disbursing the salaries of all state employees in accordance with a transparent mechanism and from secure funding sources so that the exchange process does not stop months after the agreement. However, the Saudi-led aggression rejected this equitable demand for all Yemenis without exception.
The head of the National Delegation Mohammed Abdulsalam censured the aggressor coalition for failing to renew the truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the country as a result of its intransigence and disavowal of measures that alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.