Under Houthi militias' intransigence, Lollesgaard Committee meets aboard WFP ship
English - Sunday 14 July 2019 الساعة 02:56 pm
Al-Hodeida / Mocha – NewsYemen.net
Yemeni government sources revealed that the intransigence of the Houthi militias and their refusal to open roads and participate in the meeting of the committee supervising the redeployment in al-Hodeida liberated areas forced the head of the UN team to transfer the meeting on a ship of the World Food Program in a state of continuation of the UN bow he had already had meetings on board a ship with Michael Lollesgaard successor to Patrick Cammaert.
A UAE al-Bayan Newspaper reported sources as saying that "After the Houthi militias refused to resume the meetings of the committee in the areas of Legitimate control after holding four meetings in the areas controlled by the militias, General Michael Lollesgaard, the chief international observer and the chairman of the committee, was forced to transfer the meetings to the deck of a ship anchored in the port of al-Hodeida Rented by the World Food Program."
According to these sources, the Committee would hold its first meeting on Sunday and Monday, since the cessation of its meetings following what it called the unilateral withdrawal of militias from the ports of al-Hodeida, Salif and Ras Issa.
The meeting will be devoted to discuss the monitoring mechanisms of the redeployment and verification of the members of the Coast Guard who were deployed in the three ports in al-Hodeida city and the delivery of maps of mines planted by the coup militias in the city of al-Hodeida and its surroundings so as to remove them.
The sources confirmed that the militias continue to escalate and violate the Sweden's agreement over the withdrawal of the militias' gunmen from al-Hodeida city and its ports.
New reinforcements arrived on Friday, the militias could implement a new play. The militias dyed military vehicles which spread in al-Hodeida city, in parts under controlled by them, It could indicate its intention to carry out a new play of changing uniforms into an official dress of the Central Security Forces.
Last week, the United Nations postponed the proposed date of resuming the work of the Redeployment Coordination Committee for unknown reasons, according to sources in the internationally recognized Government of Yemen.
The Yemeni parties (the Legitimate government and the Houthi militias) reached an agreement on December 13 amid consultations sponsored by the United Nations in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
The agreement provides redeployment of forces outside the city and ports of al-Hodeida, exchange of prisoners and detainees on both sides that reached more than 15 thousand, and the opening of humanitarian corridors in Taiz city which is besieged by the Houthi militias.
Because of the Houthi militias and their intransigence and their procrastination under the political cover of the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths and the UN Monitoring Team in al-Hodeida, implementation of the agreement faltered.
