Protest Organized in Sana’a Demanding Immediate Release of Seized Fuel Tankers
The Administrative Board of the Union of Workers and Employees of the Public Works Office and the employees of the Yemen Petroleum Company organized a protest in front of the United Nations office in Sana’a, to denounce the continued detention of fuel tankers by the US-Saudi aggression.
The participants in the protest stressed that the aggression’s continuation in preventing the entry of fuel tankers causes a humanitarian catastrophe that is expanding day after day.
In a statement, they issued an urgent distress call to the international community and the relevant international organizations and federations, to carry out their duties and move to take measures that would allow the entry of fuel tankers.
The statement held the United Nations responsible for the consequences of the delay of their entry, calling for the necessity of carrying out its duty and responsibilities for which it was established to alleviate the suffering of citizens as a result of the US-Saudi aggression and siege.
The statement considered that the repeated UN silence confirms the involvement of the United Nations and the Security Council in the crimes committed and still being committed by the US-Saudi-Emirati coalition of aggression against the Yemeni people.
Yemen Petroleum Company announced that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression is still detaining nine fuel tankers, including a gas vessel. The company confirmed in a statement, Saturday, that the aggression continues to detain eight fuel tankers containing 198,655 tons of gasoline and diesel for about five months.
The company indicated that all the tankers completed all UNVIM procedures in Djibouti, and obtained United Nations permits, which confirms the violation by the relevant United Nations bodies of the International Convention on Human Rights provisions, as well as its permanent disregard for the Stockholm Agreement.
Earlier on Friday, the company announced that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression had seized a new fuel tanker belonging to the World Food Program.
The official spokesman for the company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the coalition of aggression seized the tanker (Eships Barracuda) of the World Food Program, which was carrying 4,022 tons of diesel.
He pointed out that the forces of aggression forcibly took this tanker off the coast of Jizan, despite obtaining the permits of the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism.
On Wednesday, Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) confirmed that the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression had seized a new fuel ship belonging to the private sector.
The spokesman of the Yemen Petroleum Company, Issam Al-Mutawakil, stated that the aggression detained in international waters the ship UHUD bought by a factory in the private sector, and it is carrying 30 thousand tons of diesel.
As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.
The coalition of aggression continues to 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.