YPC: United Nations is key partner in doubling Yemenis’ suffering
The Executive Director of the Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC), Engineer Ammar Saleh Al-Adrai held the United Nations, along with the aggression coalition, fully responsible for Yemeni people’s suffering as a result of the blockade and piracy on fuel ships.
During a protest sit-in for the company’s employees in front of the United Nations office on Sunday in Sana’a, Al-Adra’i stressed that the United Nations is an essential partner in doubling the suffering of Yemenis, indicating that fuel is a vital and basic commodity that criminalizes its detention and its prevention of access to civilians.
He said, “The aggression coalition is currently holding 4 oil derivatives ships in light of the continuation of the temporary truce after the expiry of nearly a month from the extension of the truce, and we have 2 ships in Djibouti, one of which is gas, and the other is diesel, and they will be pirated and detained next to the 4 seized vessels.”
The Executive Director of the company indicated that only 33 vessels out of the 54 vessels seized during the truce were released, and currently 2 diesel ships are still being held off the coast of Jizan.
He pointed out that the UN envoy made it clear in his last briefing to the Security Council that he would remove the obstacles, but he linked the removal of obstacles to funding, when he expressed his concern that the funding deficit would disrupt the mechanism from working.
A statement issued by the sit-in condemned the shameful UN silence regarding piracy on oil derivatives ships of a humanitarian character and preventing them from entering Hodeida port despite being cleared by the United Nations.
He denounced the falsification of facts by the envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, in his briefings to the Security Council and his talk about the smooth entry of fuel vessels to Hodeida port and guarantee the way of entering and its officials to implement all the provisions of the armistice, which did not have its impact in the desired way.
The statement held the United Nations responsible for not implementing all the terms of the armistice and not carrying out its responsibilities in putting pressure on the aggression and its mercenaries to implement its terms.
The company’s official spokesman, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated, in a statement to Yemeni News Agency (Saba), that the United Nations did not show any positive role, either before or during the temporary truce, and the evidence for that is in the first and second extensions it was agreed to enter 54 fuel vessels, of which only 33 reached Hodeida port.
Also, he indicated that are 4 ships detained off the coast of Jizan despite being cleared by the United Nations to Hodeida port.
He pointed out that fuel vessels are not gifts or assistance from anyone, but rather the merchants bought them and their value was paid in advance.
Al-Mutawakel pointed out that the United Nations is working on trading Yemeni people humanitarian file in order to obtain funds from donor countries.