The Yemeni government refutes the allegations of the Houthi militia regarding the fuel crisis
English - Sunday 04 September 2022 الساعة 07:07 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The Yemeni government denied the allegations of the Houthi militia, the arm of Iran, that it was behind the fuel crisis that it created in its regions, stressing in this regard that there are no new or old special restrictions imposed by the government on oil derivatives coming to the ports of Hodeidah.
The government confirmed, in a statement issued at dawn today, Sunday, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the procedures are the same that have been being dealt with since the beginning of the truce announced on April 2, 2022, and they are exactly the same procedures that are applied in the rest of the Republic’s ports.
The statement revealed that the Houthi militias, since last August 10, have forced companies and traders of oil derivatives to violate the laws in force and the mechanism in place to import oil derivatives through the ports of Hodeidah since the announcement of the truce on April 2, 2022, explaining that this led to obstructing the entry of oil derivatives ships on a regular basis in accordance with the terms of the armistice. Ongoing and creating an artificial crisis in fuel.
And oil derivatives filling stations in Sanaa closed their doors to consumers, in an indication that the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - is creating a new crisis, amid fears of passing an additional price dose in fuel prices.
The oil company in Sana'a, run by the Houthi militia, claimed that the Arab coalition had detained 9 ships, declaring that it "had to work with the emergency plan starting on the morning of Sunday, September 4th."
The statement stated that the Yemeni government informed the UN envoy and the countries sponsoring the political process of the danger of the militias attempting to bypass the established mechanism, which aims behind it to facilitate the import of smuggled oil and the entry of prohibited materials and to enable private companies affiliated with Houthi leaders to import fuel directly, in addition to restarting the black market that reaps from the Houthis have a lot of money behind them
The statement stressed on behalf of the Yemeni government to the international community and to all its citizens in all of Yemen, especially in the areas under the force of the Houthi militias, that the Houthi militias are seeking to create a crisis of fake oil derivatives with the aim of pumping the stored quantities of oil, which were entered from the beginning of the truce as commercial quantities to the black market to double the group’s profits from it, pointing out that 35 ships were unloaded in the port of Hodeidah, which are all ships that submitted their orders during the period, and they carried a quantity of derivatives estimated at 963,492 tons.
The statement indicated that although the militias obtain all Hodeidah revenues from taxes, customs and other revenues, they are fabricating this crisis in order to deprive the citizens of oil derivatives and deprive them of their salaries due in accordance with the Stockholm Agreement, stressing that when they do so, they violate the provisions of the existing armistice and ignore the humanitarian consequences for the Yemeni people
In its statement, the government held the militias of Iran's arm responsible for any crisis due to the absence or high prices of oil derivatives, assuring the entire Yemeni people and the international community its commitment to the terms of the armistice.
It called for obligating the militias to end the artificial crisis and stop absurd practices to force derivatives companies and traders to violate the legal procedures followed in all Yemeni ports.
