Sources close to the meetings of the Joint Coordination Committee for the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement on the wide contacts, the head of the international observer team Patrick Camert, to put pressure on the Houthis to accept the proposals to implement the agreement, but the militias refused to withdraw from the ports and go into details of redeployment, The representatives of the two sides will meet in Amman on Tuesday in a new round of talks on the prisoners' agreement.
In the details, the sources explained that Kamert had made several contacts with UN envoy Martin Griffith and international officials to pressure the leadership of the Huthi militias to accept his proposals to make progress in the Hodeidah file, which is threatened with a halt and the explosion of the military situation.
The sources said that General Patrick held a series of meetings with representatives of the government and the coup to discuss the responses of the parties to the proposals presented to them in meetings yesterday, followed by a joint meeting of the Committee in the presence of representatives of the government and militias.
This position constitutes a hasty departure from the agreement of Sweden, which requires that the Houthis withdraw from the ports before the simultaneous withdrawal of the parties from their positions.
Sources of participation in the committee confirmed that the government representatives showed preliminary approval of Kamert's proposal on the redeployment, which includes the withdrawal of all the forces from the two sides, provided that the agreement includes the security and local security apparatuses. The final agreement is one package that includes all the terms of the Swedish agreement, but the militia representatives refuse to go into details Redeployment and withdrawal from ports.
Earlier, the legitimate government and Houthi militias resumed talks on the redeployment of troops and facilitation of humanitarian operations in accordance with the Stockholm agreement.
A UN resolution sent a 75-strong civilian observer mission to Hodeidah and surrounding ports to oversee the implementation of the Armistice Agreement, but only 20 observers are currently on the ground to monitor the cease-fire, according to UN officials.
The two sides were supposed to withdraw their forces by January 7 as part of efforts to avoid a full-scale attack on Hodeidah, but it was not because of the Huthis' intransigence in controlling the port.
This comes at a time when the United Nations announced in a statement yesterday that the representatives of the Yemeni government and the Houthis will meet today in Amman in a new round of talks between the two sides on the prisoner agreement.
The committee will meet in Amman. The committee will include representatives of the Yemeni government and the Huthis, headed by the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Yemen and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
"The special envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, are also scheduled to participate on the first day of the Committee's meetings," the statement said.
He explained that «during this round of technical meetings, the supervisory committee to follow up the implementation of the prisoners' agreement will discuss the steps taken by the parties to reach the final lists of prisoners to move forward to implement the agreement».
The new chief international observer, Danish General Michael Lawlessard, is expected to meet with a delegation representing the legitimate government before moving to Sanaa this weekend to meet representatives of the Houthi militia, according to UN sources.
According to the sources, a third batch of international observers are still waiting for the militias to issue a visa so that they can reach Yemen and assume their duties in overseeing the implementation of the agreement concluded last December in Sweden.
The United Nations group working to implement the UN Security Council resolution on arms smuggling to militias is still waiting for the Huthis to issue a visa to transfer its personnel and inspection equipment from the former port of Djibouti to its ports of Hodeida, Salif and Ras Issa.
The Yemenis were deeply disappointed after the meeting of the UN Redeployment Committee was announced, opposite the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah.
Many considered that the Houthis, who did not agree to hold meetings on land, would not be at all serious about achieving peace by sea or even in space.
Activists on social networking sites widely circulated pictures of the UN-led Vos Apollo ship and footage from the Tripartite Commission meeting.
And expressed disappointment that the meetings lead to possible solutions under the intransigence of the Houthi militias to implement the agreement of Sweden, and their withdrawal from the city of Hodeidah.
In a clear mockery of the situation in the country, some activists feared that the next round would be held on the moon, as the land and the sea had narrowed the stalled Houthis of the international community, adding to human suffering.
- The chief international observer,
Danish General Michael Lessigard, with a delegation
Represents the government before moving to Sanaa to meet
Representatives of the militias.