US Envoy to Yemen Tim Linder King confirmed that the Presidential Leadership Council in Yemen represents a more representative approach to the Yemeni people. In intense competition with each other, they gathered to demonstrate unity,” calling on all parties to respect their truce. obligations.
He added: “I think the ability of the council to provide services and represent them to the Yemeni people will be a critical test. So far, this seems very promising to us, and when you link this development to the fact that the truce in Yemen is from April 2, I think this is a really important moment for Yemen.”
He stated in this regard: “I think this truce took place under very difficult circumstances, there is a lot of fighting and no one knows more about it than the Yemeni people, but there are also 400 cross-border attacks against Saudi Arabia. and the UAE last year,” and continued, “I think the parties made difficult decisions and no one got what they wanted. Everyone had to make concessions … and the parties had to fulfill the obligations they had made to the Yemeni people. as well as the international community.”
In this regard, the Yemeni government reiterated its appeal to the international community to put pressure on the Houthi militias to lift the suffocating siege imposed on the province of Taiz for more than seven years, in pursuance of the terms of the UN truce that came into force in early April.
Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Eryani called the continued siege by the Houthi terrorist militias of Taiz province “a policy of collective punishment that reflects its latent hatred of the people of the province who rejected the coup from the first moment.” ”, pointing to the opposition of the Houthi militia to all calls and the failure of agreements to lift the siege from Taiz, from the Stockholm agreement to the declaration of a truce under the auspices of the UN, passing through local initiatives.
He called on the international community, the United Nations, representatives of the United Nations and the United States, as well as human rights organizations to put real pressure on the Houthi terrorist militia to end the siege of Taiz province, remove checkpoints and barriers, and allow the movement of citizens by natural means. . and the flow of food and essentials.
