The President to Griffiths: The escalation in Mareb ,Nehm will end our initiative and lead to dangerous results
During his meeting with the UN envoy for Yemen on Thursday, President Mahdi Al-Mashat warned of “serious consequences” for the escalation of the coalition of aggression and its armed forces in Marib and Nahm Front, stressing the need for the United Nations to play its role regarding its obligations and to enable the telecom corporation teams to extend the alternative cable of the Internet.
“Escalation in Marib and Nahm Fronts, supported by US-Saudi aerial aggression, will lead, if it continues, to ending the peace initiative that we presented, and will lead to dangerous results in light of the changes in the region,” President Mahdi Al-Mashat told Martin Griffiths.
President Al-Mashat stressed the need for the United Nations to fulfill its responsibilities and speedily fulfill its obligations. “The United Nations has delayed many of the steps that it had promised, including opening Sana’a International Airport and the medical bridge to transport patients, in addition to ending arbitrariness in the Red Sea.”
He requested that “the United Nations put pressure on the countries of aggression to enable the telecommunications corporation to complete the extension of the alternative Internet cable through Hodeidah, in which millions of dollars were paid.”
“Those affected by cutting communications are not the United Nations, but rather the Yemeni people and the capital that incurred great losses due to the interruption of the submarine cable,” he noted.
On the other hand, President Mahdi Al-Mashat stressed to the UN envoy “the keenness to provide the necessary facilities to the humanitarian organizations and enable them to carry out their work as required.”
“Any problems can be solved in a way that does not violate Yemeni law, international conventions, and community norms, as references that cannot be crossed.”
Presidents of the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers have also attended the meeting.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Yahya Al-Raei reinforced the assertion of the risks of the coalition escalation on the peace initiative, saying “President Al-Mashat faces great public pressure on his initiative to stop bombing Saudi Arabia and the commitment to that initiative, while Saudi warplanes are still bombing Yemen daily without any response.”
Al-Raei held the United Nations responsible for the suffering of the patients. “The Yemeni people suffer as a result of deadly diseases and epidemics and the failure of the United Nations to fulfill the medical bridge and its delay in this regard,” he said, noting that the wounded who were able to travel for treatment abroad could not return, because of the continued closure of Sana’a airport, in violation of international law.
For his part, the head of the Salvation Government Dr. Abdulaziz bin Habtoor reviewed conditions of the southern governorates.
“The Salvation Government does not recognize the two parties who signed the Riyadh agreement as agents of aggression countries that have assaulted the Yemeni people for 5 years,” bin Habtoor said, stressing that the southern issue was fully discussed in the National Dialogue Conference.
There has not yet been a comment from the envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Yemen Martin Griffiths or his office regarding the results of his visit to the capital, Sana’a, and his meetings with Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, President Mahdi Al-Mashat, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yahya Al-Rai and Head of the Salvation Government Dr. Abdulaziz bin Habtoor.
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