Yemen / Anadolu

Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad Al-Alimi announced on Monday the resumption of oil exports after a halt since 2022 due to repercussions of the conflict with the Houthis, affirming that its revenues would be directed to support the general budget, pay salaries, and improve services.

This came in a recorded speech broadcast by the government-run Yemen TV channel, in which Al-Alimi called on various national forces to rally around the armed forces and security agencies to support efforts to restore state institutions and end the Houthi group's control.

Al-Alimi said the government would work on 'resuming oil exports by all means starting from today (Monday),' noting that export revenues would be directed to serve citizens and fulfill the state's basic obligations, foremost among them paying salaries, improving services, and supporting economic stability.

He added that the conditions Yemen is experiencing are 'a direct result of the coup by a terrorist militia that chose weapons over the state, sectarianism over citizenship, and prioritizing the interests of the Iranian regime over the interests of the Yemeni people.'

He stressed that 'the time has come for Yemen to restore its state, for citizens to restore their dignity, and for this nightmare to end that has lasted longer than it should.'

Al-Alimi called on the Yemeni people, tribes, national forces, youth, and women to support the armed forces and military and security formations 'to protect the republic, preserve sovereignty, restore state institutions, and end the coup that has brought only destruction and ruin to Yemen.'

Al-Alimi stressed that the current stage requires unity of ranks and trust in the state, affirming that 'there is no future for Yemen under armed groups, no security with the coup, and no peace with a project based on perpetual war.'

There was no immediate comment from the Houthi group on Al-Alimi's statements.

Yemeni oil exports have been halted since late 2022 after attacks by the Houthis on oil export ports in areas under the control of the internationally recognized government.

Recently, clashes renewed between forces loyal to the Yemeni government and the Houthi group in Hodeidah province in western Yemen, where the Yemeni government announced the killing of 15 soldiers from its forces and 50 from the Houthi group's fighters.

In response, the Houthi group mobilizes thousands of its supporters in demonstrations in which it declared a state of alert, and threatened open options, announcing that readiness has been raised for days.

This escalation ends a truce that Yemen has witnessed since April 2022 in a war that began more than 11 years ago between the forces of the legitimate government and elements of the Houthi group, which has controlled provinces and cities, including Sanaa in the north of the country, since September 21, 2014.