The United Nations is biased towards the Houthis and worries about the drought of their financial resources
English - Monday 23 September 2019 الساعة 10:41 am
Aden – NewsYemen.net
The United Nations has criticized the Yemeni government's decision No. 49 of 2019, restricting the import of oil derivatives to the state-owned Aden Refineries Company, which the Houthis strongly reject, and prevented its implementation, so as not to lose one of the most important and income-generating financial resources.
Mark Luckock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told the Security Council on Yemen in mid-September that the Economic Commission's action and the government's decision No. 49 threaten the flow of fuel to Houthi-controlled areas. He hinted that the actions of the Government and the coalition were unnecessary, since the United Nations was actually implementing them.
“We are concerned that these measures may discourage significant import flows, despite an effective UN inspection and monitoring mechanism to facilitate them. Indeed, the stricter enforcement of regulations creates a delay for merchant vessels serving Hodeidah,” he said.
On June 26, 2019, the government of Mu'in Abdul Malik canceled Hadi's decision to liberalize the oil derivatives market and restricted the import of oil derivatives to the Yemeni market to Aden Refineries, and the oil company and fuel traders throughout the republic should buy from the state-owned Aden refineries.
The government's decision to put pressure on the Houthi militia economically, by stopping the entry of Iranian fuel supplies, as well as to restore the cash cycle, and stop speculation in hard currency dollar, according to the Committee estimates oil derivatives account for 60% of domestic demand for the dollar.
Houthi militia companies account for the bulk of activity related to the trade of oil derivatives in areas under their control, which enter through private companies come from the Iranian government quantities of free subsidies and other preferential prices, and represent the most important sources of Iranian support for its agent in Yemen.
The report of the Panel of Experts, which monitors UN sanctions against Yemen, confirmed in its latest report that "the Houthi leadership received support from Iran represented by shipments of oil derivatives entered through UN companies using fake documents, and found that the fuel was loaded from Iranian ports and that" the proceeds from the sale of this The fuel was used to finance the Houthi war effort. "
Observers believe that the United Nations is biased towards the Houthi militia and is concerned about the drying up of its financial resources, which buys weapons and kills the Yemeni people. This is justified by the impact of the actions of the government and the Economic Committee on hundreds of thousands of families, and did not commit the Houthi militia to implement economic decisions and neutralize the economy.
Mark Lowcock said the economic committee's actions and the government's decision had affected hundreds of thousands of families, and people would find it more difficult to obtain imports of oil derivatives unless there were sufficient levels of them able to enter the country consistently through all ports.
On 3 September 2018, the Aden Economic Committee approved a package of measures to address the currency crisis and revitalize the monetary cycle, including not allowing the entry of basic commodities and fuel into Yemen only with a bank certificate approved by the Central Bank of Aden as of October 9, 2018, but the Houthi militia aborted this decision with the support of the United Nations in the absence of Yemeni diplomacy.
