YPC Employees Hold UN Responsible for Catastrophic Situation in Yemen

The Yemen Petroleum Company employees held the United Nations responsible for the catastrophic situation, regarding its complicity with the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression in the continuation of maritime piracy on fuel tankers.

A statement issued by the company’s trade union committees, in a protest vigil organized by the employees in front of the United Nations office in Sana’a on Monday, warned of the worsening situation in Yemen, and its arrival into the largest humanitarian disaster, as a result of the US-Saudi imposed siege.

The statement explained that the fuel crisis, which the Yemeni people are going through, has increased in frequency with the increasing need of the service and vital sectors, hospitals, medical centers and dialysis centers for fuel derivatives, to continue providing services to citizens.

It also held the US, Britain and their Saudi-Emirati tools, the United Nations and its organizations responsible for the repercussions and consequences of the crisis, which doubled the human suffering of Yemenis.

The company considered the shameful international silence as one of the most prominent factors that encouraged the pro-aggression government to introduce artificial measures to increase costs on tankers loaded with fuel derivatives coming from it through land ports to governorates and free zones.

The statement reiterated the right of the Yemeni people to obtain their fuel needs loaded on tankers, which are exposed to piracy by the US and British naval vessels in the Red Sea, and to prevent their access to the port of Hodeidah, with the participation of the United Nations, which is working to falsify the facts.

It called for stopping piracy on fuel tankers, not to be exposed to them in the future, preventing the targeting of the oil company and its facilities, stations and agents’ stations, lifting the siege imposed on the port of Hodeidah, and opening Sana’a International Airport.

The company indicated that the continuation of maritime piracy and its catastrophic repercussions was not matched by any serious and tangible move by the United Nations, as it is the international body concerned with facilitating the entry of imports of basic commodities, which preferred silence, stagnation and shameful bias, despite its recognition of the worsening humanitarian conditions in this regard.