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Yemen’s Houthi movement and the United Nations have agreed on a mechanism to inspect ships docking at Hodeida following the group’s withdrawal from three Red Sea ports under a U.N.-sponsored deal, a Houthi official and a U.N. source said.
The Houthis’ unilateral pullout last month from the ports of Saleef, used for grain, the Ras Isa oil terminal and Hodeida, the main entry point for commercial and aid imports, represented the only progress in implementing the deal reached last December.
“We agreed with the U.N. on a mechanism to inspect ships docking in the ports of Hodeida and its implementation will start in the coming days,” Houthi Transport Minister Zakaria Shami was quoted as saying Tuesday by the group’s Al-Masirah TV.
A United Nations source confirmed that an agreement had been reached with U.N. inspection body, the Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen, UNVIM.
UNVIM still needs to sign a separate agreement with the Arab military coalition that monitors ships on the high seas heading to Yemen.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
