YEMEN, Sanaa - The head of the negotiating delegation in the Sanaa government, Muhammad Abdel Salam, has repeatedly confirmed that the difficult humanitarian situation in Yemen is at the forefront of the political file in the ongoing negotiations.

“The extensive visits between Sanaa and Muscat reflect our seriousness in reaching concrete steps, and the issue goes back to the extent of the other party’s seriousness,” Salam said.

He stressed, “The humanitarian situation has come to the forefront of the political and negotiating file.”

The words by the head of the negotiating delegation come after an insistence by Yemen over the past months to highlight the miserable humanitarian situation in the country as a priority within the ongoing negotiations with the Omani delegation and to separate it from the political demands and conditions that are being discussed.

Last Tuesday, the Sanaa government announced the arrival of a delegation from the Sultanate of Oman to the capital, Sanaa, “to complete the discussions and transfer the ideas and proposals brought by the discussions with the Saudi side and international parties to the leadership of Sanaa.”

This is the second visit of the Omani delegation to Sanaa since the end of the truce last October.

Lieutenant General Jalal Al-Ruwaishan, the deputy head of the Sanaa negotiating delegation and the deputy prime minister for defense and security affairs, noted that the visit of the Omani delegation, this time, brought positive points related to resolving the economic aspects through the disbursement of salaries and expressing an initial desire from the countries of aggression to reach a solution and peace in Yemen.

He stressed that Sanaa presented its “conditions clearly,” including “stopping the war, lifting the siege, and the exit of foreigners from Yemen,” stressing that “this is a legitimate right for all Yemenis.”

Yemen is suffering from one of the worst humanitarian crises in the current era, according to the United Nations, as more than 25.5 million Yemenis, out of a total population of 30 million, are now living below the poverty line, as a result of the ongoing war launched by

the Saudi coalition against the country more than 7 years ago.

The war led to the displacement of more than 4 million Yemenis, depriving two million children of the right to education, and the number of victims of the American-backed Saudi-Emirati aggression reached about 50,000, according to United Nations figures.
 

Sanaa says U.S. obstructing peace 

The Sanaa government accuses the United States of obstructing peace in Yemen and does not want the war, which has been ongoing for more than eight years, to come to an end.

On November 7, the head of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mahdi Al-Mashat, accused both the United States and its special envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, of thwarting the efforts made to extend the truce.

It is worth noting that Sanaa announced last October that negotiations to extend the UN truce in Yemen had reached a dead end after Saudi Arabia refused to pay the salaries of public employees from the revenues of oil and gas produced from the Yemeni governorates, stop the war, and lift the siege on the country.