Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf sent on Tuesday letters to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Swiss Confederation, the co-chairs of the Donors Conference on the humanitarian situation in Yemen of 2022.
In the message he also addressed to a number of foreign ministers of major donor countries to Yemen, the Foreign Minister touched on the worst humanitarian catastrophe known to the modern world and the aggravating suffering of the Yemeni people in all provinces as a result of the military and economic aggression and the comprehensive siege, which will enter its eighth year after ten days, by the aggression coalition's countries of the USA, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
He explained 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. Moreover, Yemen receives 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 because of the severe shortage of funds 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's countries and their use of various types of weapons produced by many countries supporting them.
In the messages, Minister Sharaf pointed out that despite the importance of the humanitarian aid, taking urgent humanitarian confidence-building measures by the countries of the aggression will directly contribute to alleviating the situation and the humanitarian repercussions, foremost of which is to allow the ships loaded with fuel, domestic gas and medicines to dock at the port of Hodeida, which is Yemen's main artery for imported goods.
He also 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 a peaceful political solution.
Source: Yemen News Agency