The head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi, said today, Tuesday, that the council is committed to the announced truce with the Houthi group, noting that the council’s proposals were met with what he described as the “obstinacy” of the other side, while the Houthis stressed that dealing with the humanitarian clauses in the agreement must take place without politicizing. .

The group's official spokesman, Muhammad Abd al-Salam, stated - in a tweet to him - that "the terms of the armistice are clear and unambiguous," stressing that "whoever creates any other conditions is the one who obstructs their implementation."

Al-Alimi made his statements on the sidelines of his meeting with the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, in the temporary capital of Aden, where the latter arrived, to discuss the consolidation of the humanitarian truce announced in early April.

The meeting was attended by a member of the council, Brigadier General Tariq Saleh, and Prime Minister Maeen Abdul-Malik, according to the official Yemeni Saba Agency.

Grundberg arrived in Aden in the context of efforts to push the warring parties to fulfill their obligations under the armistice, which has entered its sixth week without progress in many humanitarian and economic files.

During the meeting, Al-Alimi reiterated, "the legitimate government's readiness to provide everything necessary to facilitate the success of the international efforts to bring peace to the country, and to lead to an end to the coup carried out by the Houthi militia."

Al-Alimi reminded the UN envoy of the need for the Houthis to commit to handing over salaries to state employees from the revenues of the Hodeidah oil port’s revenues, as stipulated in the Stockholm Agreement signed in 2018, calling for the urgent implementation of the prisoners’ agreement that was made with the UN envoy’s office.

Regarding the return of Sanaa International Airport, which is under the control of the Houthis, Al-Alimi confirmed that the legitimate government made many proposals, but they were met with "clear intransigence" by the Houthi militias.

He added that "the Houthi militia has transformed Sanaa airport from a humanitarian file into a political issue, and has diverted this file from its humanitarian goals for which the agreement was concluded."

The airport has been closed by the Arab coalition since 2016 to civilian flights after accusing the Houthis of using it for military purposes, which the group denies.

It is noteworthy that the UN envoy to Yemen had announced in early April that the parties to the Yemeni conflict had agreed to a two-month truce that could be extended, which began the next day, with a previous welcome from the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, government forces and the Houthis.

Among the most prominent provisions of the truce is the resumption of commercial flights through Sanaa Airport, with two flights per week, one to Egypt and the other to Jordan.

And the government forces announced that they had monitored 2473 violations committed by the Houthi group in the first month of the armistice, between shooting, missile shelling, drones, the creation of sites and the digging of trenches.

On the other hand, the Houthis accused the coalition and government forces of committing 5,365 violations of the armistice agreement within a month of its entry into force, between air raids, missile shelling and extensive combing with various bullets.

Yemen has been witnessing for more than 7 years a continuous war between forces loyal to the legitimate government, backed by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis, who have controlled several governorates, including the capital, Sanaa, since September 2014.