Iran Press/ Middle East: On April 2, 2022, Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, said that the National Salvation Government in Yemen and the Saudi-led coalition had responded positively to the UN proposal to establish a two-month ceasefire.
In a statement carried by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) said on Wednesday the coalition has seized the diesel-loaded Daytona tanker and directed it to a southwestern Saudi region.
“In an attempt to exert further pressure on Yemeni nation and in a clear violation of the declared UN ceasefire, the US and Saudi-led aggressor coalition today seized Daytona tanker, which carries diesel, despite obtaining entry permits from the United Nations,” said Essam al-Moutawakel, a spokesman for the YPC. He added that the coalition then “arbitrarily directed” the tanker “to the coastal region in Jizan.”
“The number of vessels confiscated by the aggressor coalition is three oil vessels, all of which had been inspected and licensed by the United Nations,” al-Moutawakel said, stressing that since the truce came into effect, only two tankers out of 18 Yemen-bound tankers had entered Yemen’s besieged port of Hudaydah.
Over the past one and a half years, the coalition has prevented dozens of ships from entering Hudaydah, which is the lifeline to many Yemenis, and blocked Yemen’s much-needed fuel imports amid a crippling siege of the port.
Saudi Arabia, with the support of the United States, the United Arab Emirates and several other countries, has launched a military invasion of Yemen in March 2015 and a land, sea and air siege.
