The United Nations described the results achieved by the Stockholm Agreement on Hodeidah, which was signed between the legitimate Yemeni government and the Houthi militias as "modest", but considered it a "step that brings us closer to achieving a lasting peace for all Yemenis", while military leaders in the Yemeni Joint Forces in the western coast of Yemen called for the end of work One year after it was signed, the Houthi coup militia did not commit to its implementation.

In detail, Martin Griffiths, the office of the UN envoy to Yemen, published a report yesterday marking the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Stockholm Agreement, stressing that the implementation process may be "slow", and "there will be setbacks, but we will continue to nurture and promote every small achievement on the way to support the Yemenis." In their pursuit of peace and stability. ”

The report indicated that the Stockholm Agreement is the first agreement between the parties to the conflict in Yemen, and he said that the Stockholm consultations "remain a major progress on the road to building confidence between the two parties, and are the basis for any successful peacebuilding effort."

The report reviewed the axes of the agreement signed in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 13, 2018, and approved by the Security Council in accordance with Resolution No. 2451 of the same year, and it consists of three main axes, which include the city of Hodeidah, the ports of Hodeidah and Al-Salif, Ras Issa, and an executive mechanism on activating the exchange agreement for detainees, And the announcement of understandings about Taiz.

He explained that the parties committed themselves to an immediate ceasefire in the city of Hodeidah, the ports of Hodeidah, Salif, and Ras Issa, and agreed to a joint redeployment of forces, secure the ports, establish a joint redeployment coordination committee headed by the United Nations, and use the proceeds from the ports to support civil service salary payments.

The agreement also stipulated the strengthening of the United Nations presence in the city of Al Hudaydah, the ports of Al Hudaydah, Al Salif, and Ras Issa, which led to the establishment of the United Nations Mission in Support of the Al Hudaydah Agreement (UNMAH), through Security Council Resolution 2452 (2019), adopted on January 16, 2019.

The UN envoy's report stated that the agreement spared Hudaydah a catastrophic attack, which was expected on the city and ports, and the ceasefire, which entered into force on December 18, 2018, contributed to providing a safer environment for civilians.

He added, "It is estimated that 150,000 people have been displaced from the city previously, and they returned to it after the agreement with the ceasefire, which is still largely in place," according to the report.

He explained that a United Nations mission was established in Al Hudaydah (UNAMA) to support the parties in implementing the Al Hudaydah Agreement, in addition to establishing a joint operations center at the mission headquarters for the ceasefire mechanism and reducing escalation, and the establishment of five joint observation points on the ground to monitor the situation and prevent further The military escalation, which led to a significant decrease in the general level of violence and the number of security incidents on the city's front lines.

The report acknowledged that deployments were not yet fully complete, but said that "the agreement and the presence of the United Nations in Hodeidah have directly contributed to reducing hostilities and improving the humanitarian situation, while providing opportunities to increase confidence in the likelihood of a conflict ending."

He stated that restrictions on freedom of movement represent one of the main challenges facing the work of the United Nations Mission in Support of the Hodeidah Agreement (UNAMA), but the mission counts on the commitment of the parties to overcome this challenge.

The two parties agreed on a mechanism to deposit port revenues in a special account for the central bank branch in Al Hudaydah, under the supervision of the United Nations, to pay the salaries of civil servants in Al Hudaydah and elsewhere, but the report did not mention that this has not been achieved until now, in light of the refusal of the Houthi militias to implement this, according to Charges of the legitimate government.

Regarding the executive mechanism to activate the detainees' exchange agreement, the report stated that a specialized committee was established, through which the lists of prisoners were exchanged, logistical issues were discussed, the parties took unilateral initiatives and released hundreds of prisoners, including minors.

Regarding the understandings on Taiz, the report added: "Unfortunately, Taiz is an important part of the Stockholm Agreement that needs more attention and focus, to mediate in order to reach agreements between the two parties, to ease hostilities and open sustainable humanitarian corridors to alleviate the suffering of the Taiz population."

The report did not address the next steps on the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement, in light of government warnings of the "failure of the agreement", which the Houthi militia did not commit to implement any of its provisions while continuing its military escalation and repeated violations of the ceasefire, restricting the movement and work of the UN mission and refusing to withdraw its militias from the city And the ports of Hodeidah, according to the agreement.

For its part, military leaders in the joint forces in the western coast of Yemen called for ending the agreement, noting that the militias took advantage of the agreement to increase the operations of mobilization and mobilization towards the fronts of the coast, after they were on the verge of collapse and defeat before the United Nations intervened to save them on the pretext of the humanitarian side.

The official spokesman for the joint forces on the west coast, Waddah Al-Dubeish, said in a special statement to «Emirates Today» that the Sweden agreement saved the Houthi militias and kept them in Hodeidah, after the joint forces were about to liberate the city and its strategic port, noting that after a year of The agreement did not implement a clause thereof as a result of the intransigence of the militias that took a means to reposition and mobilize the coast. Al-Dubeish added: “Today, militias are practicing all violations against the people of the coast, launching daily attacks on joint forces with various types of weapons, leading to threats against international navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, and launching aircraft attacks on joint sites and the headquarters of the governmental committee in the Monitoring Committee International ».

He explained that the militias continued their attacks to the extent that the international committee concerned with the implementation of the Sweden agreement and monitoring the ceasefire was targeted, as well as restricting their movements, and refused to open humanitarian crossings, and continued to dig trenches and tunnels in all roads and neighborhoods that link the city of Hodeidah towards the port, and another towards the roads linking the governorates Neighboring.

Al-Dubeish called on the concerned parties to cancel the agreement, return to the military operations and the language known to the militias, return to liberation operations, cut the path in front of the militias, and circumvent them and exploit the agreements that did not adhere to any of them since their inception until the Sweden agreement at the end of last year.

For his part, the commander of the Fifth Battalion, 7th Brigade Giants, Colonel Ayman Marsh Al-Hamili, said in a press statement that the militias took advantage of the period of the Stockholm Agreement to increase mobilization, mobilization and daily escalation within a year, noting that the Stockholm Convention does not serve the Yemeni people, but serves the Houthi More, it must be abolished.

He added: “We are able to liberate Hodeidah and all the lands of Yemen from the militias, and we will work hard by all means as one team and one force to return the state’s institutions with all its pillars, but this agreement that restricted liberation and released the Houthis’s hand must end.” He pointed out that they in the joint forces are committed to the armistice , Mirrored the militias that greatly exploited them in mobilizing and bombing joint sites and civil interests.

Colonel Al-Hameeli indicated that they are in the joint forces demanding the completion of the liberation of Hodeidah, and the cancellation of the Stockholm Agreement that serves Iran's arm in Yemen, in the Hodeidah and West Coast districts.

The UN mission and the Coordination Committee for Redeployment headed by the Indian General, Abhijit Juha, have ignored documented communications by the joint forces in the west coast, during the past two days, accompanied by videos of incidents of escalation and violations of the Houthi militia towards residential areas and joint forces.

Sources in the joint forces on the western coast stated that the joint forces and their representatives in the Liaison and Control Committee addressed the mission and its head in the ship off Hodeidah with chronic reports and videotapes, including attacks, infiltrations, bombings, and increased developments, but the committee did not respond or take a verification step Field and scale the risks of Houthi ignition for the front and the front lines of contact.

Various Houthi movements were monitored across and in the vicinity of a number of front lines, and observation boxes south and east of Al Hudaydah, following the bombing and targeting of artillery and various weapons, during the past two days.

This comes at a time when local and popular demands on the West Coast to cancel the Stockholm Agreement escalated, in conjunction with a new visit to Griffiths, which he recently made to the capital, Sanaa, which he left yesterday, as part of a new round through which he seeks to persuade the militias to abide by the agreement, and start implementing its provisions. the basic.

Griffiths report: The Stockholm consultations remain "a major breakthrough in building confidence between the two parties."

• Taiz is an important part of the Stockholm Convention that needs more attention and focus.