FM meets Director of UN Envoy Office to Yemen

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hisham Sharaf discussed on Wednesday with the Director of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Special Envoy to Yemen, Roxana Bazargan, issues related to the temporary truce in its various humanitarian aspects.

In the meeting, Minister Sharaf made it clear that Sana’a remains on its principled and firm position in welcoming peace and rejecting any form of guardianship and attempts to impose any fait accompli through military aggression and a comprehensive siege on Yemen.

The Foreign Minister considered the first and second armistice an important step to move forward in strengthening confidence-building measures, but there are who are trying to exploit the situation to reach a state of no peace and no war to dilute the realities of the aggression against Yemen and encourage warlords to continue their activities that kill Yemeni people economically and living in light of a ceasefire that millions of Yemenis did not benefit from.

He stressed that what is required is a strategic view to achieve lasting peace and an honorable settlement for the Yemeni people to reach a sustainable peaceful political settlement that requires sitting at the negotiating table without any humanitarian or living pressures and taking measures that include opening Hodeida port to all oil derivatives ships and commercial goods as well as opening Sana’a Airport to commercial and civil flights, setting a periodic schedule for flights without obstruction, in addition to paying all state employees’ salaries.

Minister Sharaf warned against any attempts to dilute reality of the situation in Yemen and portray it as a civil war, stressing that the time factor is important in taking actual measures on the ground that alleviate Yemeni people suffering, instead of holding four-way and five-way meetings, and coming up with statements that do not satiate and do not suffice from hunger.