Al-Houthi refuses to grant Griffiths a date to visit Sanaa and requires permits for oil shipments
English - Thursday 04 March 2021 الساعة 10:56 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Sources close to the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, said that the militia leaders have so far refused the request of the UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to set a date to visit Sanaa in an effort to revive a new round of negotiations.
The sources added to "NewsYemen", that the militia leaders linked between allowing Griffiths to visit Sanaa and meeting their leaders with the issue of his ability to obtain entry permits for oil derivative ships belonging to private commercial companies leading the militias to the port of Hodeidah, considering that this is the least thing that the UN envoy can offer them if he wants to revive a new round of negotiations.
According to the sources, the failure of the recent round of negotiations in the Jordanian capital Amman between the Prisoners 'Committee, which represents the legitimate, internationally recognized government, and the Houthi militia, is mainly due to the militias' insistence on obtaining permits to bring oil derivative ships to the port of Hodeidah in exchange for concessions that allow the achievement of Success in this aspect.
The official of the Prisoners Committee, the leader of the Houthi militia, Abdul Qadir Al-Murtada, held in his tweet the representative of the Islah party and the head of the government team responsible for thwarting the agreement on the prisoner exchange, which the sources confirmed was just lies and incorrect allegations, and that the reason for the failure of the tour is due to linking the militias Concessions in this file to obtain permits to bring in ships of oil derivatives.
The sources indicated that after the head of the militia's Prisoners Committee returned to Sana'a, he announced the success of the exchange of 18 prisoners of militia fighters from the Marib front through a local intermediary on Sunday, February 28, noting that this operation took place at a time when Marib is witnessing military confrontations and the most violent war, however, the prisoner exchange process between the Houthi militia and reform leaders succeeded, which confirms that the failure of the Amman tour was linked to another agenda of the militias and not because of their disagreement with who they said was the representative of Islah.
The Houthi militia pursues a policy of using the issue of oil derivatives as a political card that links it to other files, as the trade process in the field of oil derivatives is one of the most prominent investments that generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the militias, in addition to the fact that most of the oil derivatives that the militias enter through the port of Hodeidah are a form of support obtained from Iran.
It is worth noting that the report of the Security Council's team of experts accused the Houthi militias of using oil in a political recruitment process, stressing that the legalization of the oil company under the control of the militias to legalize the distribution of fuel is unjustified because the quantities distributed inside the country have remained constant on an annual basis.
The report also indicated that the Tamco company owned by Ahmed Al-Muqbili now manages 30% of the fuel import market in Hodeidah and then proceeded to import through the port of Aden, and the team's investigation revealed that the company supplied oil to Star Plus company owned by Al-Faqih and its partners, and Al-Faqih is an employee of Salah for him, he is the brother of the Houthi leader and the militia spokesman, Muhammad Salah Felitah, known as Muhammad Abdulsalam.
