The truce is in the service of the Houthis and a safe cover for military mobilization
English - Sunday 28 August 2022 الساعة 07:35 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, private:
This week, the Jordanian capital, Amman, will host negotiations between representatives of the Presidential Council and the Houthi group, Iran's arm in Yemen, under the auspices of the UN envoy to Yemen, amid the latter's efforts to secure a fourth and long-term extension of the armistice.
The efforts to extend the UN truce come in light of the Houthi militia’s insistence on refusing to implement any of its commitments contained in the truce texts 5 months ago, which came into effect on the first of last April, especially the file of opening Taiz roads and the main roads between the governorates, after its rejection of the proposal submitted by the UN envoy about that in the previous round of negotiations.
Al-Houthi’s refusal and intransigence in the Taiz file is matched by clear complicity by the UN envoy by marginalizing this file in the next round of negotiations in Jordan between the Military Committee of the legitimate government and the Military Committee of the Houthi militia.
The head of the government delegation negotiating the Taiz roads, Abdulkarim Shaiban, confirmed, in press statements, that they did not receive an invitation to attend the negotiations, while team member Nabil Jamil indicated that the Houthi group refuses to discuss the Taiz file and links it to the implementation of other conditions such as paying salaries, doubling flights through Sanaa airport, and introducing more oil ships through the port of Hodeidah.
According to media reports, these Houthi conditions literally coincide with the terms that the UN envoy seeks to put as a framework for an agreement to extend the armistice for six months instead of two, which is what the Iranian arm has officially started promoting.
Where the Houthi media quoted the Minister of Transport appointed by the group as saying that the coming period will witness the opening of new destinations for flights through Sanaa Airport, in addition to Jordan and Cairo, in accordance with the provisions of the humanitarian truce, he said.
The Houthi militia achieved significant gains through the armistice without making any significant concessions, as the absence of the Arab coalition aircraft provided it with the opportunity to rearrange its militia ranks, train batches of fighters, and reinforce its fronts with equipment.
It was remarkable the size of the military parade carried out by the group during the armistice period, where it held 8 military parades since the beginning of this August, to graduate batches of its fighters under various names, while reviewing its possessions of medium and heavy weapons.
Perhaps the most dangerous development is what the spokesman for the Taiz axis, Colonel Abdul-Basit al-Bahr, revealed last week about the Houthi militia’s flight of a “helicopter” twice in a row over the airspace of Taiz Airport, east of the city, in an incident that is the first since the beginning of the war in March 2015.
Al-Bahr revealed that about two months ago, the militias of Iran’s arm had brought foreign experts believed to be Iranians to Taiz International Airport and the Tariq Air Base, adjacent to the airport, for the purpose of performing maintenance on existing aircraft and for developing drones taking advantage of the UN truce.
