From "Doha" to "Stockholm"... The black history of Houthi in breach of covenants

English - Saturday 11 June 2022 الساعة 08:20 am
Aden, NewsYemen, special:

The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, has concluded dozens of agreements with the Yemeni government, since its inception and its invasion of Yemeni cities on September 21, 2014, but it has not fulfilled its pledges for once.

In the past years, the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia signed a series of agreements under the auspices of the United Nations, and in total amounted to about (13) major and subsidiary agreements, all of which remained ink on paper and ended in failure. 

Perhaps the current armistice agreement is the latest episode in the series of Houthi coup against the agreements, as the militia repudiated its obligations under the declared UN agreement, while it intensively violated the armistice and torpedoed efforts to reach a political settlement of the Yemeni crisis.

The Houthis took advantage of the truce to mobilize, compensate for their human losses, rearrange their ranks, and prepare for a new round of military escalation.

Black history in breach of vows 

Since the outbreak of the Houthi militia’s first rebellion against the Yemeni government in June 2004, and the outbreak of the “six wars” in Saada, the group’s main stronghold, up to the UN-sponsored armistice agreement that began last January. The Houthis, students of Iran, have practiced  The long policy of deception regarding the agreements and treaties signed with them, to gain time before treachery, breaking the covenant, and overturning every concluded agreement, a behavior that dates back to the first war launched by the Yemeni government in 2004 against the Houthi rebellion in Saada Governorate, the main stronghold of the group in the north of the country, up to  to the UN humanitarian armistice agreement that began last January. 

2014 Saada Armistice Agreement and Dammaj Siege

The Houthi militia launched a war targeting the Dammaj Institute of the Salafists and its pioneers, which is run by the scholar Yahya Al-Hajouri, and imposed a complete siege on it, causing dozens of deaths and injuries on both sides.  It is from outside the Dammaj region, including the Salafi science students.” It was implemented by the Salafists, and none of them was implemented by the Houthi militia. Rather, the agreement was unfair and unjust and in favor of the Houthis by displacing about 12 thousand Salafi students to several separate areas of Yemen at the request of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. 

Saada Wars Agreement - 2006

The first agreement was signed on February 28, 2006, between the government and the Houthis, and it included some concessions made by the government side in order to prepare the atmosphere for holding the presidential and local elections in September 2006. 

Doha Agreement - 2008

The Yemeni government and the Houthi group signed, in the Qatari capital, Doha, on February 1, 2008, a document containing measures to implement a reconciliation agreement reached by the two sides for a ceasefire on June 16, 2007, after the end of the fourth round of the six wars, and the Doha agreement did not last long, only to erupt  The Fifth War in March 2008.

Peace and Partnership Agreement - 2014

 It was signed on September 21, 2014, to end the crisis between the government and the Houthis, hours after the Houthi forces invaded the capital. The agreement stipulated that President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi would form a government of competencies, and appoint advisers to the presidency from the Houthis and the Southern Movement, but the agreement did not stop the Houthis' expansion in  several provinces.

Geneva Negotiations 1 - June 2015

 It was held in June 2015, 3 months after the start of "Decisive Storm" while the Houthis were imposing their control over most of the neighborhoods of the city of Aden, and the governorates of Shabwa, Lahj, Al Dhale'e and Taiz, but the negotiations failed to reach an agreement, and the balance of power after these negotiations began to tend to the government and the Arab coalition.

Geneva Negotiations 2 - December 2015

 It was held on December 15, 2015, in the Swiss city of Biel, between the government and the Houthis, after declaring a truce that did not last long, and the consultations ended without reaching an agreement.

Kuwait Consultations - 2016

 It was launched in the Kuwaiti capital on April 21, 2016, and took place in four rounds, and the curtain came down on the longest consultation trip on August 7, 2016, without results. 

Sana'a - a preliminary agreement, the events of December 2017

 A tribal mediation committee intervened and sponsored a preliminary agreement for a ceasefire and the ongoing clashes between gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and groups of the Houthi militia, after the latter stormed the Saleh Mosque under the pretext of preventing it from celebrating the "birthday of the Prophet", and this coincided with similar attacks on the homes of President Saleh and his relatives in  Several neighborhoods in Sana’a, and the committee supervised the removal of all armed manifestations between the two sides from all the streets of Sana’a in which the armed clash took place, and only a few hours passed, and if the militiamen turned against the agreement by launching surprise attacks on the homes of Brigadier General Tariq Muhammad Abdullah Saleh and the headquarters of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress  The General and the house of Brigadier General Ammar Saleh and the house of President Saleh in the Al-Kumaim neighborhood.

GENEVA 3 - Done before it starts - September 2018

 On September 8, 2018, the United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, officially announced the failure of the Geneva negotiations due to the non-attendance of the Houthi delegation, who pleaded not to obtain sufficient guarantees for their return to Sanaa after the end of the consultations.

Stockholm Agreement - December 2018

 Sweden’s consultations between the government and the Houthis began on December 6, 2018, in the capital, Stockholm, and concluded on December 13. Despite the short period, the so-called “Stockholm Agreement” was reached, which included three files: redeployment in Hodeidah, prisoner exchange, and lifting the siege on the city.  Taiz, the government and the joint forces implemented a file from it, in light of the militia ignoring any real implementation of any of its three files. 

 Al-Bayda Negotiations 2020

Negotiations between tribesmen and the Houthi militia failed due to the tribal disaffection called for by the conference leader and tribal Sheikh Yasser Al-Awadi for the tribes in the Radman Al Awad district in Al-Bayda Governorate, following the martyrdom of Jihad Al-Asbahi at the hands of the militia’s gunmen in her home.  The militia took advantage of the negotiations to mobilize fighters and attack and seize Radman district. 

Oil Tanker Agreements - SAFER

 The Houthi terrorist militia overthrew four previous agreements after repeated negotiations with the United Nations, according to which the militia committed itself to allowing a UN technical team to board the oil tanker Safer, assess its technical condition and maintain it, but all international efforts failed in light of the militias’ continued procrastination and prevarication and their use of the file as a bargaining chip, blackmail and trying to achieve gains.  politically, without heeding warnings of an impending environmental, economic and humanitarian disaster.

2022 UN Armistice Agreement

 The United Nations sponsored the armistice agreement that began last January, and the negotiations that followed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, between the delegations of the Houthi militia, the Presidential Command Council, and the Arab coalition.  Salaries of employees in their areas of control and the opening of the Taiz crossings, which has been besieged for about 7 years, but the militias, as usual, repudiated their commitment and implementation of any clause of the agreement and practiced circumvention and circumvent the obligations of the armistice by procrastinating in the delivery of employees’ salaries and opening the crossings and roads leading to the city of Taiz, as they built bumpy dirt roads  And a new subsidiary under its fire and control, and tried to impose dictates and impossible conditions, which led to its failure.