UN: Saudi-Led Coalition Has No Permission to Inspect Yemen-Bound Ships

Local Editor

 

Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations [UN] Farhan Haq said that Saudi Arabia and its regional allies do not have any permission to inspect ships heading to Yemen.
"The Saudi-led coalition does not possess any international permission to stop or inspect the ships heading to Yemen," Haq said.
 
He had also said on Wednesday that the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] has not given any permission to the coalition forces allowing them to inspect the ships that carry humanitarian aid for the people of Yemen.

 

 

The Iranian ship, dubbed Nejat [Rescue] and carrying 2,500 tons of much-needed humanitarian supplies, left the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas for Yemen on Monday. The ship is heading towards the Yemeni port city of Hudaidah.

The Al-Saud regime has imposed a blockade on the delivery of relief supplies to the war-stricken people of Yemen in defiance of calls by international aid groups.

Saudi war jets recently last month [April] intercepted an Iranian airplane carrying humanitarian aid and medicine as well as injured Yemenis treated in Iran, and prevented it from entering the Yemeni airspace. The plane was forced to turn back although it had obtained the necessary permission to fly along the Oman-Yemen route.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000.