Al-Thawra Net
The Leader of the Yemeni Revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badruddin al-Houthi, has on Monday said that the other party, represented by the exiled Hadi’s government and Saudi-led coalition, continues to evade the implementation of its obligations in the cases of prisoner exchange, the economy and the fate of Taiz.
“The other party seeks to circumvent the Sweden agreement and evade its implementation,” Sayyid al-Houthi said during a speech he delivered on the occasion of Muslim Women’s International Day and the anniversary of the birth of Sayyida Fatima Al-Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
“The other party has its own ambitions for which it is moving, without giving any attention to the interests of Yemeni people and the residents of Hodeidah in particular,” he added.
From the first moment of the prisoners exchange agreement, the other party seemed not ready to submit its lists of prisoners, and so it has sought to obstruct the implementation of the agreement on the date set by Sweden consultations at presence of the United Nations.
During the two months of the ongoing consultations hosted by Jordan, members of the prisoners committees in the two parties did not reach a solution.
The Head of the National Committee for Prisoners Affairs, Abdul-Qader al-Mortada, said that “the other side, represented in the coalition and its militias, cares more about prisoners of its criminal and intelligence cells than prisoners of its armed forces and militias.”
The coalition said that Sana’a authorities want to swap their captives for civilian gunmen, which was denied by al-Mortada, asserting that “the prisoners held by the Yemeni army forces are either war prisoners from combat fronts or members of criminal cells who were working to destabilize security and stability in favor of the aggression inside the provinces.”
