Explanatory statement
The Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation denies all false allegations made by the so-called spokesman for the Arab coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of aggression against Yemen in the press conference on Saturday, 08/01/2022 AD, which later revealed that the scenes that were shown at the conference were cut from a documentary film. An American about the invasion of Iraq in 2010.
The Corporation confirms that its ports (Hodeida – Saleef) are subject to daily and weekly inspections by the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA). The Hodeida Agreement that the ports affiliated to the Corporation (Hodeida Port, Saleef Port and Ras Issa Marina) adhere to all the requirements and procedures in force in international ports and has nothing to do with any conflicts and is devoid of any armed manifestations, military barracks or stores for assembling weapons and launching gunboats.
A field visit was made by the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA) to the port of Hodeida and its facilities on Sunday, 09/01/2022 AD, in order to refute the false allegations of the so-called spokespersons of the Arab coalition of aggression against Yemen and to confirm the civil and professionalism of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, and the Corporation confirmed that they comply with all the requirements and standards of the international code for the security of ships and ports ISPS cODE issued by the international Maritime Organization IMO United Nations.
The Foundation notes that the coalition must be well aware that targeting civilian ports is a violation of international humanitarian law and recognized international covenants, including the four Geneva Conventions and the protocols attached to them, which criminalize targeting vital facilities that are indispensable to people, such as ports and economic facilities, as they are among the civilian objects that are prohibited from being targeted. These types of crimes are considered war crimes of the first degree, and crimes against humanity with no statute of limitations.
The institution was waiting for the United Nations, the Security Council and the international community to lift the restrictions and siege imposed on it outside the scope of the law, not for things to go the other way.
The Foundation renews its call to the international community to assume its responsibilities towards the Yemeni people to alleviate the human suffering experienced by the Yemeni people for the past seven years, which has escalated in an unprecedented way in the world during the recent period, and to deal with the economic file with the required seriousness, and to oblige the coalition of aggression to fully lift the siege, and stop the use of The economy as a means of pressure and bargaining, and the separation of the human side from the political and military side.
