Sunday, 6 March 2022 (YJC)_ A member of the Yemeni Ansarullah High Political Council announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations regarding the worn-out Safar tanker.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Yemeni Ansarullah Movement's Supreme Political Council, tweeted last night that he had signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations on the Safar tanker.
The Yemeni Ansarullah official wrote:
A memorandum of understanding was signed with the United Nations on the Safar tanker. By the will of God, work will be done under this memorandum in the future to prevent an environmental catastrophe on the shores of the Red Sea as a result of the arbitrary actions of the aggressor countries of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and their mercenaries and the siege of Yemen.
The oil tanker Safar has been anchored in the port of Ras Isa in al-Hudaidah for several years and contains more than one million barrels of light oil. The tanker has been cleared and maintenance operations have been carried out.
The Minister of Oil of the Yemeni National Salvation Government, Ahmed Abdullah Dars, had called on the United Nations to put pressure on the Saudi coalition to evacuate the cargo before the environmental catastrophe.
Dars said the Safar tanker shipment of more than a million barrels of crude oil was a time bomb and a threat to the marine environment because the ship was worn out and its maintenance had been halted due to aggression by the Saudi coalition.