Oil Minister, UN coordinator discuss repercussions of fuel ships piracy

Minister of Oil and Minerals Ahmed Daris on Sunday discussed with UN Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator David Gressly the repercussions of the US-Saudi aggression coalition’s continued piracy on fuel ships despite the temporary truce.

The meeting touched on the human suffering that the Yemeni people are going through as a result of the continued detention of fuel ships.

In the meeting, the Minister of Oil stressed the importance of urgent intervention to find solutions and treatments to ensure the entry and flow of fuel ships with ease and to prevent piracy on them as they are of a humanitarian nature.

Daris called on the United Nations and international organizations to do their duty towards the human suffering of the Yemeni people resulting from preventing the entry of oil derivatives ships to the port of Hodeida.

He stated that there are nine oil derivatives ships still being held by the aggression coalition, despite being subject to the inspection and investigation mechanism in Djibouti, and having obtained UN permits.

For his part, the UN Coordinator confirmed his keenness to coordinate and follow up in order to find solutions and remedies to the problem of holding fuel ships and work to neutralize them in a way that contributes to alleviating the suffering of the Yemeni people.

Gressly stressed that he realizes the extent of Yemenis’ need for oil derivatives, and that there is a real crisis that has caused the emergence of long queues of citizens’ cars in front of fuel filling stations.