American moves to turn the truce in Yemen into a lasting peace

The United States began a new move to turn the UN armistice in Yemen into a long-term armistice and a permanent ceasefire, while the Yemeni government confirmed that there is no lasting peace in Yemen without the disarmament of the Houthi militias, while the militias threatened a combative escalation towards international navigation in the Red Sea. .

The US State Department confirmed that envoy Tim Lenderking is making great efforts to extend the armistice and consolidate peace in Yemen, as he seeks to visit "Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and the Sultanate of Oman", to discuss assistance in trying to make the UN armistice in Yemen a truce and permanent peace, as well as discussing the implementation of the provisions of the current armistice with regard to By opening the roads of Taiz, and supporting the United Nations contingency plan for the oil tanker Safer.

The State Department indicated that the team of US envoy, Linder King, will visit Jordan as part of active diplomacy efforts to help secure the expansion of the UN-brokered truce in Yemen.

The Yemeni government, through Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani, stressed the importance of the American role in supporting Yemen, its security, stability and territorial integrity, and supporting international and international endeavors and efforts to bring peace to Yemen based on the three references.

Al-Eryani made it clear during his meeting with the US ambassador to Yemen, Stephen Fagin, that the militias still refused to implement their commitment regarding the terms of the armistice, including opening Taiz roads and paying the salaries of employees, and continued to mobilize children to fight, calling for more international pressure on the Houthis to engage in lasting peace consultations. And real.

The Yemeni minister stressed that peace will only be achieved in Yemen by disarming the Houthi militia and stopping arms smuggling, and demanded international support to disarm the militias by all possible means.

On the other hand, the United Nations accused the Houthi militia of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid to its beneficiaries during the second quarter of this year in Yemen.

In a report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that "the access of humanitarian aid in Yemen remains a challenge in general, and that 89% of incidents of obstructing humanitarian access were recorded during the second quarter of 2022, where it was reported that 532 incidents of aid obstruction to 88 districts in 18 governorates, affecting 5.5 million people.

In addition, the Houthi militia, through its official spokesman, Muhammad Abdul Salam, threatened to target oil installations in Yemen, as well as oil ships passing through the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

In a press statement, he indicated that his group would target any foreign ship entering Yemeni territorial waters to ship Yemeni oil, and that they would not extend the armistice again.

Regarding the daily violations of the truce, the Yemeni army’s media center confirmed that it had monitored 351 Houthi violations of the truce during the past three days, during which 5 infiltration attempts were thwarted towards military sites south and west of Marib and in the Maqbna front west of Taiz, noting that the violations led to the death of 4 soldiers and the injury of 25. others.

In Al-Bayda, the Yemeni forces succeeded in destroying a Houthi operations room that includes communication devices that manage Houthi violations of the armistice in the areas between the provinces of Al-Bayda and Abyan, in the Thara front in particular, according to a military source, stressing that the targeting came in response to Houthi violations in the area during the past two days.

In Sanaa, the militias continued to kidnap academic Dr. Ibrahim al-Kibsi, against the background of his demand for the payment of employee salaries, and his call for a strike to pressure the Houthis to implement this.

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