What Is The Reason Behind Suspension Of Talks Between Yemen, Saudi-Led Coalition?
During a speech at the opening ceremony of the academic year in Sana’a, President of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Mahdi Al-Mashat pointed to the fact that the payment of Yemeni government employees’ salaries has not been paid from the country’s oil revenues because of the suspension of talks with the Saudi-led coalition.
Al-Mashat went on to say that negotiations on paying employees’ salaries from our oil and gas revenues have stopped and that Saudi Arabia was willing to pay it from itself, not from our oil and gas revenues!
What Saudi Arabia wants is to steal our oil wealth and transfer it to its national bank and then, it wants to give charity to our employees and people, which is the issue that we rejected, the Yemeni official noted.
The United States is the one who urged the Saudis to refrain from paying Yemeni government employees’ salaries, he said, adding that we advised the Americans not to create enemies in each of the Yemeni people’s houses, because by preventing payment of salaries to employees, tens of millions of Yemenis will become the enemies of the Americans.
The talks between the Ansar Allah movement and Saudi Arabia entered a new phase, when the Saudi ambassador to Yemen paid a visit to the Yemeni capital Sana’a in April.
The negotiations were accompanied by a cessation of hostilities and lifting certain restrictions for activities in Yemeni ports; however, the lack of flexibility from the Saudi side on the issue of paying Yemeni employees’ salaries led to a halt in the talks. The Ansar Allah movement claims that the US is behind the scene, when it comes to the Saudi-pressure on the Yemeni people.
Yemen has been fighting a war imposed by Saudi Arabia and its allies for more than eight years, which created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
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