Oil Minister Calls on UN to Pressure Saudi-led Aggressin Allow Maintenance of Safer Tanker

The Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Dares, renewed the call for the United Nations to put pressure on the aggressive coalition to allow the emptying of the Safer floating tank off the coast of Hodeidah.

The Minister of Oil stated in a statement that the floating tank, which carries more than a million barrels of crude oil, has become a time bomb that threatens the marine environment.

He pointed out that the aggression is still preventing the emptying of the quantity or carrying out maintenance of the tank despite the attempts of the Ministry of Oil to carry out maintenance, but the aggressive coalition refuses entry of the technical team assigned to it in the eyes of the United Nations, which threatens an imminent environmental disaster due to an oil leak that reaches the Mediterranean and the Arab Sea .

The Minister put the full responsibility on the United Nations and the countries of the aggression alliance for an environmental catastrophe in the Red Sea that reaches the Suez Canal, and the destruction of marine life due to an oil spill because the Safer ship became decrepit and maintenance work stalled due to the aggression.

The Safer floating tank contains one million and 278 thousand barrels of crude oil, which is a ship used for unloading.