Statement regarding the continuation of the countries of the aggression coalition to close Sana’a International Airport to civilian flights for five consecutive years

The Ministry of Transport & the Public Authority for Civil Aviation & Meteorology condemn the continued closure of Sana’a International Airport to civil flights since August 9, 2016 to this day, which is in violation of all international laws and treaties, and a flagrant and flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international humanitarian law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the two international covenants. With civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and the two protocols attached to them, and conflicting with the texts of the Convention on the Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Chicago 1944 AD.

 

The continued closure of Sana’a International Airport to civilian flights for more than five years has exacerbated the humanitarian situation and caused the greatest human tragedy in contemporary history, as described by the United Nations itself. And restricted the freedom of millions of Yemenis and impeded the movement of vital supplies of medicine and food, and turned Yemen into a large prison.

Where the statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate the death of more than 95,000 patients who were in urgent need to travel to receive the necessary treatment, and that more than 480,000 patients who urgently need to travel for treatment abroad in a way that cannot be postponed, more than 30 of them die daily.

Statistics also indicate that there are more than 71,000 patients with cancerous tumors who are threatened with certain death, in addition to more than 8,000 patients with kidney failure who need kidney transplants to save their lives, and that more than one million patients are threatened with death as a result of the lack of many drugs for these incurable and chronic diseases, as well as Medical solutions and supplies that are transported by air, including medicines for heart diseases, diabetes, cancer, tumors, kidney and liver failure, and others.

Statistics also indicate that more than 4,000,000 expatriates are denied return to their homeland; To visit their families, at a time when thousands of students lost their scholarships due to their inability to travel to join their educational institutions abroad due to the continued air blockade imposed on Sana’a International Airport, as well as the disruption of the interests of many businessmen.

 

We in the Republic of Yemen commend the humanitarian role played by activists abroad and free people around the world to demand the reopening of Sana’a International Airport and the resumption of civilian flights. We also commend the free and energetic voices raised by some international organizations that considered the closure of Sana’a Airport an unforgivable crime, and considered patients in Yemen trapped and hostages despite the possibility of Rescue them, and the past five years have been described as a comprehensive mass death penalty for Yemenis, and the four Geneva Conventions have classified the unjust siege and restriction of movement of citizens as a crime against humanity, and a crime that amounts to genocide, the legal effects of which are not subject to any statute of limitations.

We renew our strong condemnation of the continued inability of the United Nations and the UN Security Council to persist in the countries of the coalition of aggression in closing Sana’a International Airport to civilian flights, and we call on them to quickly take a decisive stance towards ending the continuous air blockade imposed on Yemeni airports, and to issue an international resolution binding on Sana’a International Airport to lift the siege on Sana’a International Airport Immediately and unconditionally for all civil flights; As a humanitarian demand that is not subject to negotiation or futile procrastination; It serves all segments of Yemeni society.

We in the Ministry of Transport and the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology hold the countries of the coalition of aggression legally responsible and all the catastrophic consequences of closing Sana’a International Airport to civilian flights, human, material and moral losses, and urging the global human conscience and free peoples to raise their political and military brutality to the demands of their governments and pressure on this. And the unjust siege on Yemen, both on land and on people, and the demand for the immediate lifting of the air blockade on Sana’a International Airport.

Issued by the Ministry of Transport and the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology

Sana’a International Airport

August 10, 2021 AD