Yemeni Officials Confirms the Exacerbation of the Oil Derivatives Crisis ,the Absence of any Role for the United Nations

Quting from almasirah,Yemen Petroleum Company, YPC, sounded a warning, on Wednesday, that Yemen is witnessing the most severe fuel crisis since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression and siege seven years ago.

YPC spokesman, Issam Al-Mutawakel, said that “the queues for citizens’ cars to fill up gas extend more than 3 kilometers at the gas station in various governorates.”

He explained that the initiative of the company to eliminate the manifestations around the fuel crisis is ongoing, saying that all fuel tankers are not allowed to reach to the port of Hodeidah which the Saudi-led aggression is not admitting.

Al-Mutawakel stated that one of the arbitrary measures imposed on the fuel tankers awaiting to reach the port is to purchase the fuel from Emirates, and for a French company to seal and inspect the tanks of each ship, after which the ships are then taken to the port of Djibouti for inspection and granting entry permits, yet piracy continues and taken to Jizan port.

He added, “We always wonder about the feasibility of granting fuel tankers the UN permits and the justifications for piracy by the aggression in international waters.”

YPC had stated earlier today that the Navy of aggression had seized the emergency fuel tanker, and prevented it from reaching the port of Hodeidah, despite its inspection and obtaining the UN permit.

A fuel crisis afflicts all Yemen’s governorates, as a result of the procedures imposed by the Saudi-Emirati coalition and the pro-aggression government. The coalition of aggression continues its piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.

Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.

The coalition’s detention of dozens of fuel ships during more than a year and a half, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite being subject to inspection in accordance with the approved UN inspection and verification mechanism, and having obtained all the necessary permits from the UN inspection mission, caused a suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates. under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.

The fuel stations announced that their stocks of oil had run out. Hundreds of vehicles stood in long queues in front of these stations, hoping that shipments of oil would arrive in the coming days. Meanwhile, representatives of commercial power stations told subscribers in several neighborhoods of the capital, Sana’a, that these stations will have to cut off the power for hours during the day and night, as a result of the lack of diesel running these stations.