Al-Ejri: Paying Salaries Is Right for All Yemenis, Cannot be Waived

On Oct 16, 2022

Member of the National Delegation, Abdulmalik Al-Ejri, stressed that the UN Security Council is not a platform for fairness and justice, and is subject to international interests and considerations for the favor of powerful regimes.

Al-Ejri said to Almasirah that “the UN has presented texts that contain chicanery regarding the truce, and this is unacceptable,” explaining that there are no guarantees for the continuation of the calm as it was in the past during the truce.

The member of the National Delegation indicated that the truce in its first form has ended, and we do not reject negotiations, pointing out that the salary issue is a right for all Yemenis without exception, whether they are civilians or military, and the right of any employee cannot be waived because abdication rights is outside humanitarian, moral and legal standards.

Al-Ejri added, “If the negotiations reach a dead-end, escalation is the alternative option.”

He continued by saying that “the American, British and French position towards Yemen is not strange, and they are behind the crises in our region.”

Al-Ejri pointed out that Saudi Arabia is upset with the United States because it does not pay it the required attention as it deals with Ukraine and the Zionist entity, indicating that Saudi Arabia has ignited its surroundings with crises and this opens the door to Western blackmail.

On Thursday, the head of the National Delegation, Mohammad Abdulsalam, confirmed that the UN-sponsored truce ended and was not extended due to the intransigence of the US-Saudi aggression regarding the human demands and natural rights of the Yemeni people.

Abdulsalam explained, in a tweet, that one of the rights of the Yemeni people is to open Sanaa International Airport and the port of Hodeidah, without any obstacles, and to benefit from Yemen’s oil and gas wealth for the salaries of all Yemeni employees.

The head of the national delegation pointed out that peace in Yemen is not impossible if the Saudi-led aggression abandons their superior mentality, and puts their national interests ahead of the interests of the US and Britain, who benefit from the continuation of the aggression and siege on Yemen.

A UN-brokered truce lasted for six months in the seven-year-old war waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies supported by US and western countries against Yemen.

The truce, however, expired on Sunday amid the Saudi-led coalition’s constant violations of the agreement and its refusal to properly lift a siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen since the beginning of the war.

Although the US-Saudi aggression seeks to extend the truce, it with UN complicity, is still evading the implementation of humanitarian and legal entitlements, foremost of which is the paying employee salaries and entering fuel ships to the port of Hodeidah, which made Sana’a refuse to extend the temporary truce.

The head of the National Delegation Mohammed Abdulsalam censured the aggressor coalition for failing to renew the truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the country as a result of its intransigence and disavowal of measures that alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.