Transport Minister: Humanitarian armistice extension is not feasible without expansion of its items
Transport Minister Abdulwahab Yahya Al-Durra, said Monday that extending a new period of humanitarian truce without implementing the previous two periods and expanding its items to include important and vital issues is not feasible for Yemeni people in general, patients and travelers in particular.
The Minister of Transport, speaking during an expanded meeting held today for the Ministry’s leaders and staff on the first official days following the Eid al-Adha holiday, called for a review and expansion of the armistice clauses to raise the suffering of the Yemeni people, pay salaries and the release exchange of captives.
“We are nearing the completion of the second period of the United Nations-sponsored humanitarian truce, which has not been fully implemented and has not alleviated the suffering of citizens, but has achieved the Alliance’s aspiration to provide a safe situation for the export of oil.” He said.
Al-Durra confirmed that the coalition of aggression continues to renounce and procrastinate the implementation of the humanitarian armistice, especially in the conduct of commercial flights to Cairo.
“The announcement of the Cairo-Sana’a flights, which we heard the leaders of America, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt thanking in their statements for conducting civil business flights between Sana’ a and Cairo on more than one occasion, is only a shading of public opinion and the international community as only one flight has been going for more than three months.”
He reaffirmed the readiness of Sana’a airport and its commitment to the internationally approved security and safety requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The Minister of Transport called for the need to open airports, ports, roads, and land ports without restriction or condition, as they are a human right guaranteed by all international regulations, charters, and agreements.
He also called for the opening of the main roads from Aden, Marib, Al Dhalea’, Taiz, Bayda, Hadhramaut, and Jawf and the reduction of transport costs for goods and wares to alleviate suffering for citizens.
The Minister called on the United Nations to abide by the Stockholm Convention on the Port of Hodeida to rehabilitate what had been destroyed by the aggression, particularly with regard to the installation of new bridge cranes (cranes) rather than bombed by the warplane of aggression, and to allow the entry of vessels of cargo containers into the port because of their economic importance in the Port of Hodeida’s activities and maritime in general.
On the maritime side, the Minister of Transport stressed the need for the United Nations to begin implementing the plan to replace the floating reservoir (Safer) with one without procrastination or recalculation owing to the increasing danger of its contents leaking into the marine environment in our regional and international waters.