Saudi Arabia offers $ 10 million to contribute to confronting the threats to the oil tanker "Safer"
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has provided an amount of 10 million US dollars to contribute to confronting the existing threat from the oil tanker "Safer" anchored in the Red Sea coast north of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah.
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center stated - in a press statement today, reported by the Saudi Press Agency - that the Kingdom has always supported the efforts of the United Nations to confront and avoid the potential economic, humanitarian and environmental threats to the oil tanker “Safer” and the repercussions of the oil spill from it, which may cause a major environmental and navigational disaster threatening the coast. The Red Sea, fishing communities, international navigation and the entry of food, fuel and life-saving supplies to Yemen, which will exacerbate the humanitarian situation and threaten the countries bordering the Red Sea, stressing that Saudi Arabia has warned on more than one occasion that if oil spills from the “Safer” tanker, which contains more than one million barrels. It has not been maintained since 2015, the world will witness the largest environmental disaster that threatens life under water, fisheries and biodiversity as a result of the oil spill.
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