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Hadi orders members of elections commission to not heed Houthi

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Vice President, PM discuss efforts for stopping currencydeterioration

PM orders confinement of public organizations’accounts to central bank

OHCHR’s report was biased, ignored Houthiatrocities, says HR Minister

Al-Kamal,Turkish ambassador discuss productive familiesprojects in Yemen

Grande denies signing MOU with Houthis to transport patients abroad

10 Muharam 1440 H - 20 September 2018 AD

By Information Attache of the Yemeni Embassy in RiyadhWeekly Bulletin

Issue 39


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President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has orderedmembers of the Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) to not heed the replacementsHouthisare seeking to impose in the elections governing body.

On September 7, 2018, the coupist militia in Sana’a issued “a resolution” that replaces four SCER members from the pre-coup era with loyalists.

In reaction, the internationally

recognizedpresident issued a Directive on Monday evening to revoke the Houthi decision.

Referring to the exclusive authority of Hadi, as a President of the Republic, to issue resolutions of constitutional nature, the Directive demanded those ofSCER members who remain in Sana’a not to heed the Houthireplacement decisions.

It called on the Supreme Judiciary Council to address the illegal replacements and “refer

any of the SCER judges who accept the Houthi instructions to investiation”.

It also considered “any act that the judges do under the coercion of the armed militia as void and invalid.”

It also directed the foreign ministry to approach the UNSC on taking punitive measures against the authorsof the illegal replacements and all acts of tampering with public organizations.

Hadi orders members of elections commission

to not heed Houthi replacements

Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh and Prime Minister Ahmad Obeid bin-Daghr discussed on Wednesday measures and decisions taken by the government and the economic committee for limiting currency and economic deterioration.

The meeting also tackled latest military and political developments and concessions made by the legality for realizing peace based on the three references represented by the Gulf Initiative and its Implementation Mechanism, the Outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference and the UN Resolution 2216.

The Vice President was briefed by Prime Minister on the report of government’s performance in normalizing conditions and meeting demands of

the people and alleviating their suffering over Houthi militia’s coup against the state with support from Iran.

He directed taking necessary solutions for protecting the price of the national currency and economy for alleviating suffering of the Yemeni people.

He highlighted integration of efforts of the political leadership, the government, the Economic Committee and businessmen for improving living conditions of the people and overcoming current financial crisis.

The Prime Minister confirmed that his government makes the economic, service and humanitarian issues in the top of its priorities.

Vice President, PM discuss efforts for stopping currency

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VP meets with UN Secretary

General’s envoy to Yemen

Vice President (Lt Gen) Ali Mohssen Saleh met Thursday here with the UN Secretary General envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths. The meeting aimed to discuss the developments and the underway efforts to establish peace in Yemen.

The Vice President expressed his thanks for the UN’s envoy, highly appreciating his significant good offices aiming to resume the political process. He reiterated the legitimate government’s position and interested in achieving durable peace that is based on the three terms of reference that can put down the coup and restore the State.

The Vice President pointed out to the recent consultations suggested by the UN’s envoy which the legitimate government dealt with positively. It is worthy to be noted that the legitimate government’s delegation went to the planned consultations with good faith and dealt with constructively as usual, meanwhile the Iran-backed Houthis putschists kept on their intransigence, gave no attention to the Yemenis’ souls

and humanitarian suffering they have caused, they also didn’t show any respect for the UN’s efforts aimed to make peace.

The Vice President said:” We wished that the UN and International community would have firm stance toward the Houthis’ rebellion and their negative response to the UN’s peace efforts and calls. We wished that the UN and International community would seriously seek to carry out the UN’s resolutions in relevance and to put in place what all Yemenis came to consensus about with regional and international support”.

The Vice President stated that the legitimate leadership headed by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and backed by the Arab Coalition has always been seeking for peace and has been fighting a defensive war to reinstate the legitimate authority that is national, regional and international recognized which illegally has been taken by the Houthis.

(Lt Gen) Mohssen called on the UN and International

community to implement their own resolution 2216 about Yemen. He voiced appreciation for the Arab Coalition member states’ position as well as the friendly countries’ stance toward the coup and their support for the Yemenis in different fields.

The Vice President briefed the UN’s envoy on the humanitarian situation that our country has been experiencing, citing the militia’s atrocities against the Yemeni peoples in the Houthis-controlled regions.

He also affirmed the Yemenis’ absolute rejection to take control over power by force and violence, stressing the importance of democracy, pluralism and elections given that it is the ideal method to reach power.

For his part, the UN’s envoy expressed pleasure to meet the Vice President with the purpose of discussing the peace efforts.

The deputy of the UN’s envoy Ma’een Sharim was in at tendance.


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Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr met the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen at OIC’s headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

The meeting discussed aspects of cooperation between Yemen and the OIC, the political and security developments in Yemen and the means of strengthening the Islamic solidarity process at this time in which a number of OIC member States, including Yemen, face a great danger.

Bin-Daghr praised the OIC’s steadfast commitment to support the Yemeni government and reject of the Houthi coup, backed by Iran, against the Yemeni state.

He made clear toAl-Othaimeenthat in tandem with the military action against the Houthi militants, the government is seeking to end the coup and advance the a sustainable peace according to the agreed upon terms of reference for peace; the Gulf initiative, the outcomes of the National Dialogue and the UN Security Council resolutions especially resolution no. 2216.

PM meets OIC Secretary

General

Vice President Ali Mohsen Salehand the Russian Ambassador to Yemen Vladimir Dedushkin discussed in a meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday latest developments in Yemen and the bilateral relations between Yemen and Russia.

The Vice President praised the Russian support for Yemen’s government and the UN envoy’s efforts to achieve peace

in Yemen in accordance with the three agreed upon terms of reference; the Gulf initiative, the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference and the UN Security Council resolution no. 2216.

Vice President called on Russia and the rest permanent members of the UN Security Council to pressure the Houthi militia to implement the UN

Security Council resolution 2216 to ensure the restoration of law and order in Yemen.

The Vice President referred to the tragic situation Yemen is suffering because of the repercussions of the Houthis’ coup of September 2014 and the unanimous resolve among the Yemeni people to end the coup and restore a stable secure Yemen.

VP,Russian Ambassador

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PM orders confinement of public organizations’ accounts to central bank

Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr has issued orders to close the accounts of public organizations with commercial banks and confine those accounts to the country’s central bank in the temporary capital Aden.

Chairing a meeting the national Economic Committee tasked with addressing the recent devaluation of the national currencyheld in Aden on Monday, bin-Daghr ordered that any surplus of foreign cash in the accounts of

public agenciesto be used to address the causes of the Riyal devaluation.

The central bank will use those surpluses to meet the demands on dollar for importing oil products.

Prime Minister Ahmed bin-Daghr today telephoned a number of military commanders in the Giants Brigades of the armed forces and Popular Resistance forces who are battling Houthi rebels in the West Coast Front.

Bin-Daghr called them to learn about the advances of the ongoing military operation that aims to liberate Yemen’s West Coast

including Hodeidah province from the Houthi putchists.

The commanders of the army and popular resistance forces have acquainted bin-Daghr how, with support from the Arab Coalition, they have taken control of the entrances of Hodeidah city.

PM follows up on

developments in the West Coast


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Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Ebtihaj Al-Kamal and the Turkish Ambassador to Yemen Levent Ellerdiscussed the bilateral cooperation in supporting the productive families and social welfare projects in Yemen.

They also discussed training the projects’ personnel and the situation of targeted beneficiaries especially the people forced by the Houthi militia into displacement in a number of provinces outside their own hometowns.

The rebel militia’s crackdowns forced thousands of Yemeni families to move to the east, especially Marib province, and south, especially the temporary capital Aden, to find safe places albeit with no sources of income.

Al-Kamal and the Turkish diplomat also discussed the possibility of furthering Turkish humanitarian support to the war-affected people in general.

Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Dr. Mohammed Al-Saadihas discussed with the USAID Country Director Eileen Devitt the organization’s work program for the next two years, which will focus on supporting Yemen in health, education, livelihood, commercial facilities, and training and rehabilitation.

In a meeting Al-Saadi and Devitt held in Riyadh on Thursday, they agreed to hold another technical meeting to discuss the details of the work program between Yemen and the USAID to focus future cooperation on development, capacity building and improving the economic situation.

Al-Kamal,Turkish ambassador discuss productive families projects in Yemen

Planning Minister discusses with

USAID their plans for coming

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OHCHR’s report was biased, ignored

Houthi atrocities, says HR Minister

Minister of Human Rights Mohammed Askar said the report of the OHCHR affiliate experts issued in August 28, 2018 regarding the status of human rights in Yemen was biased and ignored the Houthi militia’s atrocities.

Addressing a seminar his ministry organized in the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, Askar said the report paid no attention to the militia’s responsibility for the war (through mounting the coup in 2014 and invadingthe country’s provincesincluding Taiz and Hodeidah in 2015) and the war atrocities that they have been committing throughout the war to now:the bombing of the infrastructure including public and private properties; forcible recruitment of child soldiers, the killing of 14220 civilians including 1500 children and 865 women and the injury of 31127 other civilians including 1593 through landmines; forcible disappearance of 21706 people and torturing 86 people to death; and the fact that 627 of the Houthi violationstargeted journalists and included killings andtortures; and the sabotaging of peace talks in Geneva, Beil and Kuwait and in lastly in Geneva again, by failing

to show up in the talksthat were supposed to be held in September 6.

Al-Maysari cited a whole raft of violations the militia committed in Hodeidah in and Taiz and the UN report avoided attributing them to the Houthis.

He said that the UN experts even avoided visiting the city of Taiz which Houthis have been besieging for years, despite the government’s call to the experts, in different occasions, to visitit.

More than 2000 civilian casualties in Yemen in six months,says activist

Yemeni activist Mutahar al-Budheiji said in a seminar in Geneva on Tuesday that an organization he leads has reported more than 2000 civilian casualties incurred in different parts of Yemen from January 1 to June 30 of this year.

Addressing a seminar on the sideline of the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council,al-Budheijithe CEO of the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (YCMHRV)said 1224 civilians were reported killed and 1220 others were

injured by indiscriminate shelling, sniping attacks, assassinations, tortures in jail and landmines

He said that “among the killed are 232 children, 129 women and 69 elderly people.” The central Yemen city of Taiz suffered the biggest number of casualties (367) followed by Hodeidah (226) and Ibb (74).

“The Houthi militia is the prime perpetrator of these abuse acts,” he said

The landmines, exclusively used by Houthis in the ongoing war, have killed 182of the civilians including 41 children and 24 women and injured 138 other civilians including 19 children and 15 women.

He blamed the Houthis forkilling 25 peaceful activists and al-Qaeda for killing 10 othersby way of torture.

The enforced disappearances occurred mostly in the capital city of Sana’a, Mahweet, Beidha and Taiz.

The tortures were reported to take place in 199 secret jails supervised by the Iran affiliated militiain Sana’a, Beidha, Ibb, Saadah, Hajjah, Hodeidah, and Dhamar.


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Yemen’s Central Bank has lifted interest rate on certificates of deposit to 27 percent to set a limit to the continued depreciation of the national currency, the Riyal.

The dollar has climbed to more than 600 Riyals

up from 215 Riyals during the ongoing war which was triggered by the Houthi militia’s military coup in September 2014.

The bank also increased the interest rates on government bonds to 17 percent.

Yemen central bank lifts interest rate on CDs to 27%

Army advances toward Hodeidah main university

Yemen’s armed forces have advanced closer

towards the main public university of Hodeidah in

their military pressure against the Houthi rebels.

The operations staff officer of the Giants Brigades

overrunning the Red Sea port city Col. Ahmed

al-Subeihi told the Defense Ministry’s website

that the troops are now besieging the Houthi

rebel militiamen from the east, west and south

of Hodeidah leaving them with only the northern

exit – Alsaleef rout.

The government says that the Houthi militia,

throughout their years of control on the Red Sea

port city, have been obstructing humanitarian

supply to the people of Hodeidah and using the

huge revenues of the port to finance their coup-

induced rule and insurgency that have plunged

Yemen in its worst humanitarian crisis ever.


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The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations (YCMHRV) said the war launched by the Houthi militia following their coup in September 2014 caused a major water crisis and the spread of diseases and epidemics such as malaria and dengue fever.

In a speech on the sidelines of the 39th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, YCMHRV member Hani Al-Asoudi said the militia destroyed the offices of the Local Corporation for Water and Sanitation in a number of provinces and the artesian water wells and cisterns in Hodeidah, Taiz, Hajjah, Aden and other provinces as part of a collective punishment of

against civilians.

Another YCMHRV member, Ms. Huda al-Sorari, said many areas of Yemen suffer have always suffered a chronic severe shortage of drinking water and agricultural irrigation water. This shortage became worse after the Houthigroup abandoned Yemen’s historical National Dialogue and seized power militarily and unleashed the war that is continuing to now.

In Taiz,the chronic water crisis has increased in severity since the Houthis imposed siege around the city in March 2015.

“Piped water used to reach the houses once every 40 days, the crisis became even worse as theHouthiwar brought the

governmental utilityin charge of water supply to a halt,” she said.

“The water crisis compelled children to toil in fetching water to their houses and get killed by Houthi snipers as they run those essential errands.”

As another impact of the water shortage she cited the WHO’s statistics which indicate that 14,000 under-five Yemeni children die every year as a result of diseases caused by the shortage of water.

Another Houthi direct involvement in maintaining the water crisis is their militarization of water sources by turning those water utilities or wells to sites for their fighters and military hardware.

Houthis caused water crisis, spread of epidemics, say YCMHRV members


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Activists condemn UNHRC overlooking of Houthi crimes

Al-Osaydi tells HRW official Yemeni journalists face serious Houthi abuses

More human rights activists and journalists have joined the voice of condemnations to the recent report on abuses in Yemen issued by the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen established by the Human Rights Council.

In a seminar they held in Marib

province on Saturday the activists said the report which blamed the government and the Arab Coalition for civilian casualties overlooked the fact that the Houthis are guilty of the most appalling and deliberate abuses and crimes taking place for more than three years now.

Amat al-Salam the chairwoman of the League of the Mothers of the Abducted people in rebel militia’s jails said the UNHRC experts ignored the militia’s practices of abducting those who oppose them and subjecting them to all forms of physical and psychological torture.

Nabil Al-Osaydi a member of the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate has told Kristine Beckerle, the Yemen researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division of the Human Rights Watchthat Yemeni journalists face serious abuses in the jails of the Houthi militia.

In a meeting they held in Geneva, he said that Yemeni journalists face murder, direct crackdown, arrests, abduction at the hands of the militia, in addition to health deterioration in the rebel militia’s jails in north Yemen.

He cited the recent Houthi referral of a number of

journalists to a security court in Sana’a to subject them to trial.

He referred to the extensive blocking of a number of news websites and newspapers and TV channels by the militia describing that as an unprecedented war against media.

He called on the international community to stand by Yemeni journalists and compel the Houthi militia to release all kidnapped journalists unconditionally, pointing out that some of the detained journalists are suffering from serious health conditions that require their hospitalization.

Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Mansour Bajash expressed to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator Lisa Grande the Yemeni government’s concern and condemnation ofher signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Houthi militia to transport Yemeni patients

abroad through an air bridge.

Bajjash said signing the memorandum with the putschists contradicts the obligations of the UN obligations and the UN Security Council resolutions, foremost of which is resolution 2216 andnegatively affects the distinguished relations between the Yemeni government and the

UN organizations.

On her part, Grande denied signing the memorandum saying it did not and will not sign any agreement with Houthis. She said thatthat the United Nations is committed to its resolutions and recognizes only the legitimate government.

Grande denies signing MOU with Houthis to

transport patients abroad

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