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Yemen’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Ezzi stated that representatives of the Riyadh-backed Hadi delegation has refused to continue attending the joint meetings in the city of Hodeida.
According to al-Ezzi, the representatives of the Hadi delegation would only participate in the meetings if they were held in a place of their choosing – a building belonging to a Yemeni citizen which was occupied by Saudi-led coalition forces.
For their part, the representatives of Yemen’s national delegation refused to do so, adding that “our military honor and ethics do not allow us to meet with you in a building owned by a Yemeni citizen looted by the mercenaries of Sudan’s Janjaweed mercenaries and the UAE.”
“We do not find any explanation for the other party's condition to hold the meetings of the Coordination Committee in the occupied territories. It only reveals their intent to obstruct the work of the committee and to cause the failure of the Stockholm agreement, especially since all meetings … were held in the city of Hodeida from the beginning where there is security,” Al-Ezzi wrote in a Twitter post.
Yemen’s two warring parties, namely Houthi Ansarullah movement and the country’s former Saudi-backed resigned regime, reached an agreement on a ceasefire in the Houthi-held port in Sweden on December 13.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing Hadi’s resigned regime back to power and crushing the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement.
According to a new report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, the Saudi-led war has so far claimed the lives of around 56,000 Yemenis.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.
A number of Western countries, the US and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical and intelligence assistance.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
