The government team - Hodeidah: Houthi escalation violates Stockholm Agreements and we will not stand idly by
English - Thursday 12 March 2020 الساعة 08:12 am
Hodeidah / Mocha , Newsyemen:
The head of the government team talked about a dangerous escalation of the Houthi militias threatening to blow up the Stockholm agreement and return matters to square one, and said that we cannot stand idly by against the violations of the Iranian arm militia in Hodeidah.
Major General Mohammed Musleh Aydah, head of the government team in the Coordination Committee for Redeployment in Hodeidah, affirmed that the Houthi militia targeted the fifth observation point in City Max inside the city of Hodeidah, which resulted in the injury of Colonel / Mohamed Sharaf Al-Sulayhi, seriously in the head during his performance his duties as part of a joint team under the supervision of the United Nations, is considered a dangerous escalation threatening to blow up the Stockholm Agreement and return the situation to square one.
The head of the government team in the Redeployment Coordination Committee said: What the Houthi militia's targeting of one of the Liaison Officers ’points is is a flagrant violation of all the agreements and understandings reached over more than a year, despite the fact that these militias have committed thousands of violations and violations since the issuance of the Security Council resolution A cease-fire in Hodeidah on December 18, 2018.
He continued: The government team considers that this cowardly attack puts the Stockholm Agreement and the peace track in Hodeidah Governorate at a crossroads. He pointed out that, since the deployment of control points to the liaison officers in October last year, representatives of the joint forces in the control points were subjected to systematic targeting by the Houthi militias in a clear affirmation of the militia's refusal to delinquish the peace we seek and for which the government team was keen not to be drawn into the violence that the militias tried to drag us into, by daily violations and escalation.
The head of the government team on the Coordination Committee for the Redeployment of Houthi Militias warned against the consequences of continuing such attacks, which we cannot stand idly by.
They held the Houthi militias fully responsible for this serious military escalation and its repercussions, calling on the United Nations, the UN envoy to Yemen and the UN monitoring team in Hodeidah to define a clear and explicit position on such flagrant violations of the Stockholm Agreement.
