Economic Team Releases Statement After Concluding UN-brokered Meeting in Jordan

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Yemeni Economic Delegation has released a statement at the end of the UN-brokered meeting, which was held in Jordan’s capital Amman from May 14 to 16 to confer the economic terms in line with the agreed Stockholm Agreement, Saba News Agency reported.

The Economic Delegation said in the statement that the meetings discussed the mechanisms of sharing out earnings from the three flash-point ports of Salif, Ras Isa and Hodeidah, which have been under US-Saudi tight siege since June last year.

It also discussed the issue of salaries and to make the economic situation neutral, it added.

The Economic team presented its vision to the Office of the Envoy, which aims to alleviate the human suffering of the Yemeni people.

Based on the discussions, the Office of the Envoy provided some ideas and mechanisms on Hodeidah revenues. “It was hoped that these mechanisms would have been achieved, but the intransigence of the other party and the fact that they had announced in advance the failure of the meetings before their end obstructed that,” the statement said.

The United Nations proposed to resume the meeting in June to move forward on the implementation of an economic agreement to help to pay the salaries that have been suspended since the arbitrary procedure of transferring the central bank to Aden in September 2016.

“It was hoped to achieve success during these talks, but the pro- aggression party focused on aspects of formality outside the concept of the agreement completely, forgetting that the Hodeidah agreement aims at reducing the deterioration of the humanitarian situation, the high rate of poverty and saving Yemen of the threat of famine,” the Delegation stressed.

It pointed out that the other party “was not serious in the selection of representatives of his team, which included an intelligence officer without an economic background and fully control the interventions of their team, indicating the insistence on politicizing the humanitarian and economic situation and intervene in matters, not within their competence.”

The Economic Delegation thanked the United Nations, represented by the Special Envoy for Yemen and his staff for facilitating and following up the implementation of the Hodeidah Agreement. It also thanked the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for welcoming and facilitating the meeting in its capital Amman, stressing the constant readiness to engage in all positive and constructive consultations that will reduce the suffering of Yemenis and ensure that Yemen’s revenues are channeled to its beneficiaries.