Sana’a Reiterates UN Envoy’s Inability to Lead Yemen Peace Negotiations
Sana’a has renewed its insistence on the incapability of the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, in leading effective peace negotiations, pointing out that the position of the United Nations and the International Security Council towards Yemen remains far from the requirements of reality and the interests of the Yemeni people and their legitimate entitlements.
The International Security Council held a new session regarding Yemen on Monday, which included another negative briefing by UN representative Hans Grundberg. The session reflected the ongoing collusion with the countries of aggression and their sponsors in an attempt to circumvent the demands for fair peace.
In response, Deputy Foreign Minister of the National Salvation Government, Hussein Al-Ezzi, stated that “the authority of the UN Secretary-General’s envoy does not include establishing peace in Yemen; because he is still bound by references that call for surrender.”
Al-Ezzi added that “the envoy also cannot lead negotiations that lead to ending the war in Yemen; because the one leading the war on the other side is not within his negotiating process.”
Grundberg, in his briefing, adopted the United Nations’ position, supporting the countries sponsoring the aggression coalition, spearheaded by the United States, regarding peace. This includes insisting on distancing the countries of aggression from the negotiating scene and presenting the mercenaries as a main party at the table to turn the issue into an internal conflict and “civil war,” allowing the enemy to continue targeting the Yemeni people and evading commitments and entitlements of a genuine solution.
The Deputy Foreign Minister responded by emphasizing that “Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue requires the dissolution of the coalition, the neutralization of the foreign element, and the cancellation of Resolution 2216; without that, peace remains just words.”
He added that “it would be better for the Security Council to remain silent; because it prolongs the war and blockade on Yemen.”
In the same context, a member of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, confirmed that “the Security Council is still out of touch, relying on social media rumors, and distancing itself from the concerns and suffering of the Yemeni people.”
He explained that the optimal path to achieving peace must include “obligating coalition leaders committed to the Security Council to pay the salaries of all Yemeni employees” and “declaring a cessation of aggression and lifting the senseless blockade imposed by the American-British-Saudi-Emirati alliance and their allies.”
Al-Houthi added that it is necessary for the International Security Council to “oblige the American-British-Saudi-Emirati alliance and their allies to reconstruct and compensate the people and state of the Republic of Yemen for direct and indirect losses, deducting those amounts from the assets of the aggressor countries, as European Union officials acknowledge for Ukraine and its compensation from Russia.”
He pointed out that the corruption of the United Nations must be stopped at the expense of the hunger of the Yemeni people.
Al-Houthi clarified that “these are legitimate rights, representing the least responsibility that the Security Council can undertake in the face of what most of its members have been doing to Yemen for the past nine years.”
These statements carry clear messages, confirming to the countries of aggression and their sponsors the impossibility of backing down from the determinants of fair peace, which the enemies are trying to circumvent. This also implies the inevitability of the failure of their efforts aimed at prolonging the state of neither war nor peace.