The national team of the Redeployment Committee in Hodeida and the UN mission of “UNAMHA” visit the ports of Saleef and Ras Issa and the site of the ship Safer

A meeting was held at Saleef Port in Hodeida Governorate , Thursday, February 3, 2022 AD, which included the Deputy Chief of the General Staff – Head of the National Team in the Redeployment Committee in Hodeida, Major General Ali Hammoud Al-Mushki, CEO of the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, Captain Muhammad Abu Bakr Ishaq, and Head of the United Nations Support Mission The Hodeida Agreement, “Al-Anma,” General Michael Perry, set the port and highlighted its needs, requirements, and efforts to improve its services.

The meeting, in the presence of two members of the national team in the Redeployment Committee, Major General Muhammad Al-Qadri, Brigadier General Mansour Al-Saadi, the Executive Vice President of the Corporation, Engineer Yahya Abbas Sharaf Al-Din, the directors of the port, Ahmed Muhammad Atta, and the Directorate of Al-Salif Abdul Rahim Al-Shami, touched on the difficulties that the port is facing as a result of the aggression and the siege.

In the meeting, Major General Al-Mushki reviewed the continuous provocations of the American-Zionist-Saudi-Emirati aggression forces in the Red Sea, the detention of fuel ships, and the conduct of military maneuvers by them near the Yemeni territorial waters.

He explained that in the area adjacent to the Salif district, there is a Ras Duneb station, which supplies the governorates of the republic with electric power, and is vulnerable to stopping as a result of the lack of fuel needed to operate it due to the aggression’s detention of fuel ships.

He stressed that the ships must enter without hindrances or conditions to the port of Hodeida, and that the international community should call for this, because the continued detention of them constitutes a war crime, and falls within the concept of collective punishment that affects all the Yemeni people without exception .

He stressed that the aggression deliberately targeted the infrastructure of service and civil facilities.. He pointed out that the United Nations missions did not issue any condemnation or denunciation of such targeting, which did not spare their crews.

He stressed that the more the aggression continues to escalate it, there will be a response from us to this escalation.. He pointed to the higher number of air raids of the aggression after the Stockholm Agreement than it was before the Sweden Agreement.

In turn, the CEO of the Corporation welcomed the visit of the UN mission to the port of Saleef and to see its conditions and activities.

He explained that the Salif port is considered one of the Corporation’s branches after the ports of Hodeida, Ras Issa and Mocha, which is currently under the occupation of the aggression and its mercenaries.. He demanded an end to its occupation and return to the administration of the Corporation.

Captain Ishaq confirmed that all of the corporation’s ports comply with the international code, which requires a number of standards for security protection, and which authorizes the Coast Guard to protect ports.

Noting that the Stockholm Agreement specified the three ports of Hodeida, Saleef, Ras Issa.. He referred to the natural features that the port of Saleef possesses and its ability to receive large ships that cannot enter the port of Hodeida.

Indicating the role played by Saleef Port since the beginning of the year 2015 AD, by receiving ships of imports of humanitarian aid to international organizations.

He explained that the port received 224,000 tons of imports last year from the aid provided by the World Food Program.

“The United Nations missions are present in the port on a daily basis, and a ship arrives monthly to the United Nations,” he said, adding that the port remains subject to continuous threats by the spokesman of the aggression coalition of targeting under the pretext that it is a military area.

The CEO of the Corporation stated that the port has an electrical station that supplies the port with electric current and the surrounding civilian areas in the Salif district, which is about to stop as a result of running out of fuel and the aggression’s detention of oil derivatives ships without justification or legal justification.

Pointing to the suspension of work at Ras Issa port, which was relied upon to receive giant oil tankers, due to the limited berths of the port of Hodeidah after it was targeted by the Saudi-American aggression.

He also confirmed that the port is always open for visits by the UN mission, and there are a large number of visits made by the UN missions to the ports of the Corporation.

He expressed the hope that the UN mission would play a greater role and have a clear position regarding the threats to the Corporation’s ports as they are civilian ports and serve mainly international organizations to deliver aid and have nothing to do with any military actions.

Stressing that the United Nations should have a clear position on the crime of detaining ships and an explicit call for respect of the Sweden Agreement.

While the director of Saleef Directorate explained that the people of the Directorate depend on the profession of fishing in the main, and most of their boats are currently suspended due to the lack of fuel.. He stressed by saying, “We do not count on the United Nations, but we hope to lift the siege.”

For his part, the head of the UN mission expressed his happiness at visiting the Salif area and port in Hodeida, describing it as good. He stressed that the mission will do its utmost to lift the siege and allow the entry of oil ships due to their importance in running the daily lives of citizens.

In addition, the head of the national team in the Redeployment Committee, the CEO of the Corporation, the head of the UN mission, the two members of the Redeployment Committee, the Executive Vice President of the Corporation, and the Director of the Salif Directorate inspected the progress of work in the port.

They were briefed on the commercial and navigational activities in the port berths, the movement of handling and unloading of ships, and the services provided to ships.

They also visited the power station and a number of facilities affiliated to the port, and listened to an explanation from those in charge of it about the activities and services it provides and the overall needs that it needs to provide.

They also inspected the conditions of the fishing port and Ras Issa, which stopped working after being targeted by the US-Saudi aggression in mid-2017, which caused great economic losses.

They visited the mooring area of ​​the Safer floating oil tank, and the national team briefed the UNMHA mission on the dangers of the United Nations’ reluctance to repair the severe damage to the Safer ship despite the provision of all necessary facilities by the Sana’a government.

The head of the mission, General Perry, praised the efforts of the Corporation’s leadership and workers in revitalizing the Salif port and the work of loading and unloading, and providing more services and facilities to those dealing with it, despite the circumstances and challenges created by the current situation.

The meeting was attended and accompanied during the visit by the Director-General of the Office of the CEO of the Corporation, Nabil Omar Al-Mazhaji, the Legal Affairs Department, Mutahar Al-Amdi, the Deputy Director of Saleef Port Hussein Nasser, and a number of stakeholders in the relevant authorities.