Yemen welcomes Saudi initiatives

ISLAMABAD: Yemen has welcomed Saudi initiative regarding a comprehensive ceasefire, the opening of Sana’a Airport to a number of destinations, the completion of the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement and the entry of ships of all kinds as long as they abide by relevant Security Council resolutions provided that funds are deposited to the Central Bank, pay salaries from them on the basis of the 2014 lists, and support the return to political consultations.

Yemen has reminded that the Houthi militias met all previous initiatives with obstinacy and procrastination and worked to prolong and deepen the humanitarian crisis by rejecting the initiative to open Sanaa Airport, plunder relief aid and steal Hudaydah port revenue allocated to pay employees’ salaries, in exchange for misleading the international community by provoking crisis at the expense of the suffering of Yemenis.

It said the fresh initiative comes in response to international efforts aimed at ending war and human suffering, at a time when our national army backed by proud tribes is leading heroic epics and achieving victories on the various battle fronts that the Houthi militia ignited in Marib, Taiz, Hajjah, Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda and Al-Dhale’e. it said it is a real test to the willingness of militias to achieve peace, and a test to the efficiency of the international community which is calling for an end to the war and for resuming the political track.