Saturday, April 13,
2017
By Redhwan Al-sharif
The
Yemeni government on Friday criticised a United Nations report on the
rebel-held strategic Red Sea port of Hodeidah saying it contains “untrue and
unrealistic information.”
The
press statement issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights
and international sanctions, IdrissJazairy, was not based on true and realistic
information, said Abdul RaqeebFateh, Yemen’s Local Administration Minister and
chairman of the Supreme Relief Committee, in a statement carried by the
official Yemeni news agency.
“The
humanitarian disaster was inflicted on Yemen by the coup d’etat that was
carried out by the rebel Houthi group and their ally, the now-deposed president
Ali Abdullah Saleh, against the Yemeni legitimate government.”
“The
rebel militias continue to block food aid convoys from entering several Yemeni
governorates and has been besieging Taiz city for more than one and a half
year, and have recently seized 223 aid convoys and 63 ships carrying
humanitarian aid supplies and used them to back their war effort,” he said.
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