joint press conference between the leadership of Hodeidah Governorate, YOC and YRSPC to denounce the continued detention of oil tankers

 

20/3/2021 at the port of Hodeida, a joint press conference was held at the leadership of Hodeida Governorate, the Yemeni Oil Company and the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation to denounce the continued detention of oil tankers for nearly a year, as the Acting Governor of Hodeida, Professor Muhammad Ayyash Qahim, confirmed that the countries of the aggression coalition The Saudi American and its mercenaries continue to detain oil ships and prevent them from entering the port of Hodeida, which has exacerbated the great suffering of the Yemeni people.

In a press conference held by the local authority in the governorate in coordination with the Yemeni Oil Company at the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, Qahim indicated that this criminal act is not surprising for a coalition that has practiced brutal aggression and unjust siege on the Yemeni people since March 26, 2015.

He explained that the detention of oil vessels is inconsistent with the ethics of war, and represents a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, and the Stockholm Agreement, which explicitly stipulates the unimpeded entry of ships and goods into the port of Hodeidah, and also contradicts the Security Council resolutions in support of the Stockholm Agreement that stipulated not to impede the entry of fuel ships. .

He pointed out that the lies spread about the mouthpieces of the aggression media about fuel ships entering the port of Hodeidah are no longer fools anyone, but rather are empty fabrications.

He held the United Nations responsible for ignoring, bias, and negligence in the context of justifying the crimes and massacres committed by the aggression coalition against the people of Yemen and their capabilities over six years of aggression, siege and escalation.

He also stressed that the UN envoy, the United Nations and the international community must unveil such fallacies that condemn the victim and not the criminals.

He pointed to the aggression’s insistence on doubling the suffering of Yemenis by detaining ships of derivatives and the exacerbation of the situation due to the lack of oil derivatives, foreshadowing humanitarian catastrophes resulting from the interruption of electricity and water services, cleaning work, and vital service facilities such as factories, hospitals, dialysis centers, cancer and others.

The international community also held the moral and humanitarian responsibility towards the continuing suffering of the Yemeni people, as a result of not allowing the entry of fuel and the continued closure of ports, land, sea and air airports to prevent the biggest humanitarian disaster in Yemen.

The Acting Governor called on the United Nations to play a humanitarian role and a clear position on detaining oil derivative ships and work to lift the blockade and stop the aggression.

While the CEO of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, Captain / Muhammad Abu Bakr Ishaq, explained that since the beginning of the year 2021 AD, no fuel tanker has ever reached the docks of Hodeidah port.

I consider the maritime piracy imposed by the aggression coalition on oil ships and preventing their entry to the port of Hodeidah, despite their fulfillment of all inspection requirements and the necessary permits from the United Nations, as a stain on humanity’s face.

He pointed out that all the oil ships anchored in the ship traffic activity statistic issued by the Concerned Department of Hodeidah Port under the name “Expected Arrival”, which is published on a daily basis on the Corporation’s official website, were not allowed to enter by the aggression barges despite obtaining UN permits, after being subjected to the verification mechanism. And inspection and they fulfill all conditions.

He mentioned that the statistics identified in its entirety the existence of 14 oil vessels, including nine ships expected to arrive in the year 2020 AD, and four ships from January and February of the current year 2021 AD, in addition to a diesel ship in this March, stressing that all the aforementioned ships, unfortunately, did not reach the port in A blatant violation and violation of generally accepted international laws and regulations.

Noting that the handling of this statistic by one of the international channels was not accurate and dishonorable and contrary to what was stated in it, pointing out that the locations of ships and their whereabouts can be tracked through modern technologies and programs and refute these allegations and fabrications.

He called on the various media outlets and websites to show accuracy, adherence to objectivity and professionalism in reporting news, and to stay away from cheap excitement, exaggerations and fabrications that offend the media profession and its noble message and credibility in front of domestic and foreign public opinion.

He stressed the importance of transmitting the news and data issued by the institution’s official website on the Internet as it is in order to serve the truth, pointing out that fabricating and fabricating false news and promoting them creates a state of confusion in society and does not help the competent institutions to fully carry out their mission, role and tasks.

The CEO of the Yemen Red Sea Ports Corporation stressed that ships must enter Hodeidah port without obstacles or conditions, and that the international community should call for this, since its continued detention constitutes a war crime, and falls within the concept of collective punishment that affects all Yemeni people without exception.

Captain / Ishaq reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to international laws and conventions through the International Maritime Organization “ IMO ” of the United Nations Organization, out of the responsibility entrusted to it.

He also pointed out that the Corporation is ready to receive all commercial and relief ships and oil tankers in accordance with the regulations and procedures followed and in force in international ports, and to provide the necessary facilities for all ships without exception.

And he called on humanitarian organizations and all the free people to condemn the seizure of ships and to raise the voice about the insistence shown by the coalition of aggression to continue to detain them and to multiply the suffering of the Yemeni people, especially since there is nothing in international decisions or the Sweden agreement that gives the other party the right to detain ships and there is no justification on which to base them. Except for the weakness of the UN position and the bullying of the American position in support of all crimes against the Yemeni people.

While the spokesperson of the oil company, Mr. Essam Al-Mutawakel, denied what the US-Saudi media propagated about the entry of oil tankers into the draft or the berths of the port of Hodeidah.

Al-Mutawakel indicated that the port of Hodeidah is free of any oil ships, despite the fact that the detained ships from the aggression coalition obtained entry permits from the United Nations Verification and Inspection Committee (UNIFEM).

Al-Mutawakel confirmed that the aggression is still holding 14 ships off the port of Jizan without any right and has nothing to do with the military or political side, pointing out that the oil berth for receiving oil ships in the port has been empty of any ship since the beginning of this year.

The spokesperson of the oil company warned of a humanitarian catastrophe threatening the Yemeni people in the event that the service sectors stop, in the forefront of the health sector and food security sources, not to mention incurring fines that would double the deterioration of the economic situation, holding the United Nations fully responsible for what will happen in the coming days.

He expressed hope that the United Nations would return to its charter and for what it was founded for and not to comply with the pressures of the aggression coalition led by America, as it is concerned with inspecting ships and granting them permits, and then leaving them to face the intransigence of the aggression coalition at sea.

The press conference, which was attended by the directors of the Coast Guard sector in the Red Sea, Colonel Zaid Al-Washaly, and the CEO of the Red Sea Ports Corporation / Nabil Omar Al-Mazjaji, Planning and Statistics Dr. fuel.

joint press conference between the leadership of Hodeidah Governorate, YOC and YRSPC  to denounce the continued detention of oil tankers