YPC Calls UN Abide by Int. Convention on Seas
The executive director of the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), Ammar Al-Adrai, said that the US-Saudi aggression is still holding eight ships of oil products and is preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from United Nations.
Al-Adari indicated during protest stand organized by Yemen Petroleum Company employees in front of United Nations office in Sana’a today, that the United Nations has become major partner in the maritime piracy against fuel ships, and it is the one that violates United Nations Convention on Law of Sea, and said, “We demanded more than once that the UN abide by the Int. Law for Seas, but it ignored those calls. We did not see any international cooperation to break the blockade and stop the piracy carried out by the aggression coalition led by America and under the cover of United Nations.”
The executive director of the YPC held the United Nations fully responsible for what had happened in Yemen and what will result from it in the coming days, due to the detention of oil derivative ships.
The Executive Director pointed out that since the beginning of this year, no fuel ships has been allowed to enter Hodeidah port except for one diesel vessel for public consumption, indicating that the ships that are still being held at sea, the first of which exceeded their detention period of nearly 5 months, and the delay fines reached more than 155 Million dollars.
Al-Adrai renewed the call of world’s free journalists, jurists and activists to pressure United Nations and the coalition of aggression to release the fuel ships to avoid humanitarian catastrophe as result of the cessation of most service and vital sectors from providing their services to citizens.
Statement issued by United Nations Trade Union Committee put full responsibility for the worsening humanitarian conditions that Yemeni people live on the continued siege by the aggression. It called on the international community and United Nations to quickly release all the detained ships and not to be exposed to them in the future.
The statement of the YPC condemned United Nations disregarding the detention of fuel ships by the US-Saudi aggression, stressing adherence to the legitimate rights and the demand for the release of these ships.