Houthi militias: 40 billion riyals or disaster .. Lowcock exposes Griffith's fraud to Security Council
English - Saturday 27 July 2019 الساعة 03:49 pm
Sana'a – NewsYemen.net
UN Secretary-General special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths avoided the confirmed sanctions against the Houthi militias at the final deadline for implementation of the Stockholm agreement on May 15 when he told the Security Council that the Houthis had withdrawn from the ports of al-Hodeida, while the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock exposed the fraud of Martin Griffiths, telling the Security Council that the Houthis prevented access more than once to repair a tank full of crude oil in the port of Ras Issa in al-Hodeida
He added that the vessel is at risk of spilling up to 1.1 million barrels of into the Red Sea
“The UN assessment team had planned to deploy to the tanker next week, but the necessary permits remain pending with the (Houthi) authorities”, he told an 18 July security council meeting
The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Mark Lowcock , said at a session of the Security Council that the Houthi militias refused to allow the team to assess the risk of a floating tank filled with crude oil four years ago, on the coast off the port of Ras Issa in al-Hodeida, threatening to leak more than one million barrels Of crude oil, whose catastrophic effects extend from sea to ocean
The Houthi militias, which controls the port of Ras Issa, the ports of al-Hodeida and al-Salif in al-Hodeida province, refuse to allow a UN technical team to unload the floating crude oil tank. In exchange for access to the oil tank, the return of oil sales to the central bank in the Capital Sana'a
Based on current oil prices, the cargo loaded on the public vessel of 1,040,000 barrels of Marib light crude could reach more than 60 million dollars, equivalent to 40 billion Yemeni riyals
