The conflict in Yemen and the game of the UN envoys... a meager role and investment under the pretext of peace

English - Saturday 28 January 2023 الساعة 08:27 am
Cairo, NewsYemen, exclusive:

Experts and political analysts have unanimously agreed that the United Nations should invest in the conflict in Yemen and benefit from it under the allegations of efforts to achieve peace and end the war, which they see as the creation of its envoys to Yemen, beginning with the Moroccan Jamal bin Omar, all the way to the Swedish Hans Grundberg.

The experts emphasized that what happened in Yemen during the years of the crisis and the efforts of the UN envoys are worth stopping and reading the results that may not seem worthy of that.

Who are the envoys of the United Nations?

 For more than ten years, four UN envoys have successively been appointed to Yemen, and the beginning was in April 2011, with the appointment of the Moroccan politician, Jamal Ben Omar, who continued his work until April 2015.  After him, the Mauritanian politician Ismail Ould Cheikh, who refused in February 2018 to extend his mission, took over the task, after which the politician Martin Griffiths was appointed as a UN envoy to Yemen until August 2021, when the Swedish Hans Grundberg was appointed as an envoy after the complicated relations between Griffiths and the Houthi terrorist militia  Which refused to receive him more than once in Sana'a.

Bin Omar is considered one of the architects of the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism that was signed in November 2011, according to which power was transferred from the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh to his former vice president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and he was also responsible for the peace and partnership agreement that was signed in September 2014 between the authority  The legitimacy in Sana'a and the Houthi militia, which was known as the "Ansar Allah" movement, after demonstrations and sit-ins organized by the movement to protest against the decisions of the government of Muhammad Salem bin Sindwa, which was under the control of the Islah party.  After that, the Houthi movement began to seize state institutions, leading to the invasion of the capital, Sana'a, and its military control.

As for Ould al-Sheikh, he succeeded during his work in bringing together the legitimacy and the putschists in peace consultations in Geneva and Kuwait, but his relationship with the militias worsened due to the latter's intransigence and its continuous rejection of all peace initiatives before an attempt was made to assassinate him during his visit to Sana'a in May 2017, to refuse to extend his mission and demand an urgent end to it.

British Griffiths' period was characterized by submission to the militias and their demands, and he is considered primarily responsible for the Stockholm Agreement that saved the militias from losing Hodeidah after the joint forces were 2 km away from completing the encirclement of the port and isolating it from the city, while he refused in his various briefings to the UN Security Council to disclose  On the main obstacle to the implementation of the provisions of this agreement, which the militias benefited from to rebuild their fortifications in Hodeidah, and it also turned a blind eye to its continuous attack on Marib and besieging it with the aim of overthrowing it during the years 2020 and 2021 .

The Swede Grundberg, the current envoy, succeeded in imposing a humanitarian truce that served as a lifeline for the militias that lost a lot during Operation "Arrows of the South" launched by the forces of the southern giants in January 2022 AD in order to liberate Bayhan and reached as far as the Abdiyah Mountains before they were stopped under this truce that began in  April 2, 2022 for a period of two months, and it was extended twice, before Iran’s arm announced its rejection of the third extension on October 2 of the same year.

International game in the name of peace

 Dr..  Fares Al-Bayl, a researcher and politician, told (NewsYemen) that the United Nations entered the Yemeni problem after it gained great weight and reassurance by virtue of being the first sponsor of peace and responsible for resolving conflicts, and he believes that the complications faced the inability to resolve the issue or understand it.

He added, "First, the Yemeni problem, with its complexities, needed a deep knowledge of its roots, dimensions, and effects, but the United Nations dealt with it as a problem that "intersected" with external files and was linked to its effects and dealt with it according to this view.

However, the researcher and politician Abdul Sattar Al-Shamiri had another opinion, as he said, "In fact, there is nothing that can be called the path of the envoys. There is the path of the game of nations in the Middle East, the Gulf, and Yemen at the heart of that," indicating that the United Nations with its envoys did not provide anything on the political and humanitarian level, and remained  Ranged by putting pressure on the coalition and legitimacy, stopping the battles, and offering concessions in the context of bartering in the Iranian file, in agreement with Dr.  Bill at this point.

Al-Shamiri believes that the Yemenis and the legitimate authority were deceived by their reliance on these envoys, describing the United Nations as the "cart" that comes after the horse to support the victor and the strong, and this is what our situation appears to be, especially at a defining moment now, and in light of the fleeting negotiations that give the militia everything and not take  The Yemeni people and legitimacy are nothing to mention.

As for the political analyst and journalist Muhammad al-Taher, he underestimated the importance of the envoys' experience, pointing out that it is an experience that should not be repeated in any disputes, as they contributed to widening the differences and prolonging the conflicts, because they do not work with conscience and in accordance with international law, but rather they work to exploit these conflicts.

He pointed out that Yemen represented a successful investment for the envoys who were unable to resolve matters, but rather complicated them and were able to find grounds for investment and blackmailing the Gulf, given that it is an opportunity that will not be repeated.

Al-Taher stresses in this regard that the problem lies in the envoys, whom he said are the reason for the prolongation of the war, stressing in this regard that the Arab coalition and the Yemeni government must follow the policy of force to subjugate the opponent and force him to accept a political settlement, without considering or returning to the UN envoy, meaning that peace will only come with military force.  .

For his part, writer and journalist Ramah Al-Jabri considered the United Nations not as it speaks of itself or in accordance with the goals for which it was established.  Preserving peace and protecting human rights, but rather a tool used by the major powers to achieve their agenda and protect their interests, as evidenced by what happened by the first envoy, Jamal bin Omar, who stayed in Saada for three days in September 2014, waiting until Sana’a was stormed and reached Grundburg, who repeats the same mistake.

Ramah Al-Jabri does not doubt that the irresponsible dealings of the United Nations with the militia encouraged it to further intransigence and tampering with efforts, and the ten-year assessment of the performance of the United Nations makes it a tool employed by the militia and was an obstacle to the aspirations of the people, as evidenced by stopping the liberation of Hodeidah and "Stockholm", which the militia did not implement  one item.

Uneven role and meager and modest performance

 Concerning the role of the four United Nations envoys, Al-Bayl believes that his performance was uneven, and that the first envoy, Jamal bin Omar, may have been fully aware of the international plan to enter Yemen into a state of conflict, war, and Iranian control, and this was clear, yet he was blind to the problem and may have facilitated it, or at least  He covered it, but Ould Sheikh tried and was the most successful of them.  He put forward a project that is farthest from peace, meaning that he set a plan to hand over institutions, disarmament, and adhere to international resolutions, holding direct negotiating conferences. He was the most fortunate, but unfortunately (Griffiths) came and zeroed all this and reduced the problem to Hodeidah.

And about the current envoy, Albel says, "We hoped that he would present something new, but it seems that even less than Griffith has only succeeded in truce."

As for Al-Shamiri, he explained that America was the main player, and it is the one that brought us to this labyrinth in establishing a militia and a state within the state, explaining that the experience of the envoys is more than a practical path, a protocol path, and that the United Nations, that large building on the outskirts of the East River, has never offered anything to the oppressed peoples, and has not  solves a case.

Al-Taher agrees with Al-Shamiri's proposition, and says, "The results that we see from each envoy are poor in proposals and ideas, so that they could not pressure or inform the international community in the truth-briefing sessions, and name the obstruction. They are working to prevaricate so as not to put pressure on the Houthis in order to establish peace."

While Ramah Al-Jabri stressed in this regard that the United Nations during the past years worked to manage the conflict and not to end it in accordance with the international agenda, pointing out that if the international community wanted to dilute an issue and perpetuate the conflict in it, it entrusted it to it, citing the Palestinian cause, and that the reality of the battle in Yemen is  who imposes himself.