Head of the National Delegation: Cause of Absence Implementation of Sweden

On Jan 14, 2019

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The head of the national delegation, Mohammed Abdel Salam, has said on Sunday that the absence of any progress in the implementation of the Sweden agreement is caused by the fact that the Chairman of the UN Monitoring committee, Patrick Cammaert, deviated from the course of the agreement.

“The lack of progress in the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement is mainly due to deviation by the chairman of the UN Monitoring Committee from the Agreement, in order to implement another agenda,” Mohammed Abdel Salam wrote on his Twitter Account.

“It seems that the task is greater than the capabilities of Cammaert,” he added.

Abdul Salam called on the UN envoy for Yemen, Martian Griffiths, to redress the matter, saying “unless Griffiths does something about it; it will be very difficult to look into any other matter.”

In December, Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed government signed an agreement for a ceasefire in Hodeidah during UN-brokered peace talks held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, mediated the negotiations.

According to the agreement, the Houthi fighters, who are in control of Hodeidah, and Yemen’s former president fugitive Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s armed militia together Saudi-led forces who have placed the city under a tight siege since June — must withdraw from the port and hand it over to UN observers.

“If Griffiths does not address the issue, it is going to be difficult to discuss any other matter,” Abdulsalam added, without elaborating.

According to the UN, the fragile ceasefire has largely held since it came into force on December 2018, but there have been delays in the agreed withdrawal of the Houthis and Hadi’s forces.

The limited ceasefire and withdrawal, if implemented, could offer a potential breakthrough in a nearly four-year Saudi-led war that has brought Yemen to the brink of starvation and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.