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The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, Mohammad Abdulsalam, blamed the US for the deteriorating economic situation in the impoverished country, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported on Wednesday.
The current living conditions of the Yemeni People are a direct result of US threats following the collapse of the UN-sponsored negotiations in Kuwait in 2016, the report quoted him as saying.
Following that round of peace efforts, Washington’s ambassador to Yemen promised the destruction of the local economy as a collective punishment for not accepting unjust political solutions to the political conflict.
“The first step was to transfer the Central Bank from Sana’a to Aden, which happened, immediately, after the consultations of Kuwait, then print the currency, push for high rate of inflation by withdrawal of foreign currency to areas controlled by the occupation and finally the closure of foreign transfers altogether,” al-Masirah quoted Abdulsalam as saying.
Yemen’s southern areas—which are controlled by Saudi-backed officials of the former Yemeni government—have been the scene of protests over the past days, with the demonstrators calling for a rise in their salaries.
Saudi Arabia invaded the Arab world’s poorest nation in 2015 to bring back the Hadi regime to power. The kingdom has also imposed an all-out blockade on Yemen, which according to the UN is now the scene of the world’s worst man-made crisis.
Some 15,000 Yemenis have reportedly been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression in March 2015.
The war has unleashed a humanitarian and economic crisis on the already impoverished country. The UN has described the situation as “one of the worst humanitarian disasters of modern times.”
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
