[23/10/2025 05:18]

ADEN - SABA

Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Muammar al-Eryani has welcomed the United Nations' move to evacuate all its foreign international employees from the kidnapped capital, Sanaa, and areas controlled by the terrorist Houthi militia supported by the Iranian regime.

Al-Eryani stressed in a press statement that this step, despite its delay, represents an explicit recognition of the impossibility of continuing the work of international organizations in a hostile environment in which the militia practices the most heinous forms of intimidation and blackmail against humanitarian and relief workers, and undermines the principles of neutrality and independence on which humanitarian work is based.

He explained that the evacuation decision should include hundreds of local employees working in the offices and agencies of the United Nations and relief organizations in the capital, Sana'a and the rest of the areas controlled by the militia, who are living in extremely difficult humanitarian and security conditions, after the militia imposed strict restrictions on their movement, and forced them to sign pledges not to leave the areas under its control and to report their movements, in a serious violation of international humanitarian law, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of International and National Officials Working in International Organizations.

Al-Eryani stressed the need for the United Nations to take a firm stance against these systematic violations, and not to allow the militia to exploit humanitarian work as a tool of political blackmail or an illegal means of financing, and to re-evaluate its work mechanisms in areas controlled by the militia in coordination with the government.

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