Yemeni Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf sent, on Tuesday, letters to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, the co-chairs of the Donors Conference on the humanitarian situation in Yemen of 2022.
He pointed out that millions of civilians, most of whom are from the most vulnerable groups of women, children and the elderly, are facing the threat of starvation, indicating that there are more than 4 million internally displaced persons who have lost their homes and their source of income, while Yemen received nearly half a million illegal immigrants from the Horn of Africa, and all of them are in urgent need of providing the necessary humanitarian aid and services to keep them away from the starvation.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated the projects included in the United Nations humanitarian response plans from 2016 until 2021 have suffered from repeated threats of suspension as a result of the severe shortage of funding due to the failure of donors to fulfill their financial pledges announced at the annual donor conferences.
He called on donor countries to pay adequate attention to the humanitarian situation in Yemen to help mitigate the repercussions of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the aggression and its use of various types of weapons produced by many countries supporting the countries of the aggression.
In the messages, Minister Sharaf pointed out that despite the importance of the countries making financial pledges and fulfilling them to ensure that United Nations organizations, programs and agencies continue to provide urgent humanitarian aid projects, taking urgent humanitarian confidence-building measures by the countries of the aggression will directly contribute to alleviating the situation, the repercussions of the humanitarian catastrophe, foremost of which is the failure to impede the entry of ships of oil derivatives, domestic gas and medicines through the port of Hodeida, which is the main artery for imports to enter Yemen.
He stressed the importance of reopening Sana’a International Airport to commercial and civil flights, paving the way for a peaceful political settlement, which is the only solution to reach peace if the aggression countries are serious about their approach and talk about peace and a peaceful political solution.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its other regional allies, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015. The seven years and half of war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. Yemeni people are facing malnutrition, hunger, and famine, which have increased risks of disease and starvation.
In light of its defeats on various frontlines and its failure to achieve any of its objectives, the US-Saudi aggression is notorious for its indiscrimination shown by its numerous attacks against densely-populated centers, including markets, hospitals, farms and schools.
