Yemeni Foreign Minister Khalid al-Yamani said yesterday that the main airport in Yemen will be in Aden, stressing at the same time the need to be the port of Hodeidah under the sovereignty of the Yemeni government.
"We are ready today to open Sanaa airport, but we have a vision that Aden is the main airport of sovereignty of the Republic of Yemen and other airports are internal airports," Khalid al-Yamani told AFP on the sidelines of the Yemeni peace talks hosted by Sweden.
With regard to the port of Hodeidah in the west of Yemen, Al-Yamani stressed that the port should be under the sovereignty of the Yemeni government.
"The port must remain a sovereign part and part of the functions of the Yemeni Ministry of Transport, which is responsible for Yemeni ports and ports," he said.
"We accept that the port will manage the elements of the administration that operated in the port according to the laws of 2014," that is, before the rebels control it.
Al-Yamani told al-Arabiya that the port of Hodeidah is part of Yemen's sovereignty and we accept administrative coordination with the United Nations.
Al-Yamani pointed to the acceptance by the delegation of legitimacy of Sweden's consultations of the negotiating framework and confidence-building measures, the first stages of the road map.
Meanwhile, Yemeni military sources confirmed that the Huthi-backed militias in Iran continue their terrorist and hostile acts using booby-trapped boats to threaten maritime traffic and international trade in the southern Red Sea.
The sources confirmed that the reports received from Hodeidah targeting the coalition for the boats were Huthi militias preparing and preparing them to carry out terrorist acts.
According to reports, the two targeted boats were near Hodeidah and away from fishing harbors or communities in an empty maritime area, in an attempt by the Houthi terrorist militias to avoid being targeted by the coalition.
The Yemeni peace consultations continue on its third day in Stockholm, where sources participated in the consultations that three joint teams of government and coup committees have been formed to discuss the development of an executive program for the release of prisoners from both parties in accordance with the agreement signed between them.
The second team is considering lifting the siege of the militias from Taiz, while the third group is considering the economic file and procedures for consolidating the work of the Central Bank and securing the supply of public financial revenues from the areas of the coupers to the Central Bank in Aden in return for payment of salaries of government employees in all parts of Yemen.