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UN Security Council to Discuss Yemen Oil Tanker Impasse
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The UN Security Council will meet this week to discuss a long-abandoned fuel tanker off Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... amid growing fears of a catastrophic oil spill, diplomats said Wednesday. Thursday's meeting, requested by Britannia, comes after Iran's Houthi sock puppets  ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias said an agreement to allow a UN mission to inspect the tanker had "reached a dead end." The 45-year-old fuel vessel FSO Safer has 1.1 million barrels of crude on board and has been abandoned near Yemen's western port of Hodeidah since 2015. UN inspectors were initially meant to assess the tanker last year but the mission has been repeatedly delayed over disagreements with the Houthis. A spokesperson for Britannia at the UN said there was a "grave risk" of an oil spill "which would be catastrophic for Yemen and the region." "The responsibility for the tanker lies with the Houthis and they must cooperate with the UN. We are bringing this issue to the UN Security Council tomorrow to discuss next steps," he added, AFP reported. The Houthi said Tuesday that negotiations with the UN had reached an impasse after several days of talks, according to their al-Masira channel. They said they "deeply regret the UN's backing out of conducting maintenance work (in a deal) that was signed last November." Posted by: Fred 2021-06-04 |
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