Griffiths calls on parties to support the proposal to stop fighting
English - Thursday 02 July 2020 الساعة 06:57 pm
Al-Hodeidah / Mocha, Newsyemen
On Thursday, 2 July 2020, the UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, called on the Yemeni parties to support his proposal on a joint ceasefire declaration.
Griffiths had said that he had presented President Hadi a draft supposed agreement to declare a ceasefire with Houthi militias and another draft related to a number of humanitarian measures.
In another context, media sources reported on Thursday, that discussions are currently taking place between the legitimate government and the UN envoy Martin Griffiths to allow the entry of four oil ships to the city of Hodeidah in the framework of humanitarian efforts, with the support of the coalition, and Griffiths is seeking to renew the operating mechanism of the ports of Hodeidah under the control of the Houthis who have By emptying the revenue account agreed at the central bank branch in Hodeidah, in violation of previous agreements sponsored by Griffiths.
According to the Stockholm Agreement and its understandings, the Houthis committed to supplying the amounts due to the state from the oil derivative ships arriving at the port of Hodeidah and Ras Issa to an account in the central bank in Hodeidah in favor of the payment of employees salaries according to the 2014 statements and the account is under the supervision of the United Nations.
The Houthi militias decided last week to confiscate 36 billion Yemeni riyals (about $ 60 million) of proven fuel revenues, estimated at 50 billion Yemeni riyals (about 84 million dollars) without informing the UN envoy or his office, the supervising and monitoring body of the account for legal revenue for trade. The fuel and its import to the ports of Hodeidah, which reveals the militia's looting of more than 72 per cent of that revenue, half of which goes to the Houthi war effort, according to a member of the Yemeni Economic Committee, Dr. Faris Al-Jadabi, to «Middle East».
The funds were collected in an account supervised and monitored by the Office of the International Envoy, dedicated to paying the salaries of civilians in the areas of submission according to a mechanism that was being discussed with the envoy's office and faltered because the militias criminalized the circulation of the new currency and confiscated those funds from that account, according to one of the reports submitted by the militia.
The Houthis exercised the postponement role when the envoy’s office asked the Houthis to report on those funds that were confiscated without the envoy’s office for more than a month.
After the repeated request, it reveals the confiscation of 44 billion Yemeni riyals, about 50 percent of which was spent on military activity and 50 percent was distributed as half salary for some of their categories.
