Yemen Monitor/Newsroom
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today called on the Houthi group to release Yemeni Airways planes from Sana’a International Airport and unfreeze the company’s accounts in Sana’a banks.
The 46th Congress of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) adopted an emergency resolution on Yemen and the country’s transport sector today, Saturday, during the conference in the Moroccan city of Marrakech from October 13-19, with the participation of 2,500 trade unionists representing all transport unions worldwide from all land, sea, and air sectors.
The speech of the Yemeni delegation highlighted the importance of Yemen in the transport sector due to its geographical location and its control over the important maritime gateway of Bab el-Mandeb, in addition to Yemeni ports and the country’s airspace.
Today, Saturday, an emergency resolution number 6 was voted on regarding Yemen as a result of the Yemeni Airways company suffering from the seizure of its planes and its accounts in Sana’a Airport and banks by the Houthi group.
The resolution included continuing to pressure the international community to pressure all parties to the conflict to reach a solution to stop the war that the country has been witnessing for nearly a decade.
The resolution stressed the need to continue pressure through international organizations to neutralize the Yemeni transport sector from the ravages of war and conflict as a humanitarian factor and to demand the opening of all land, sea, and air ports and operation from airports as a humanitarian need.
The resolution renewed the demand for the Houthi group to release the Yemeni Airways planes held at Sana’a International Airport and its accounts in Sana’a banks so that the company can continue its tasks to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people as the only national carrier in Yemen.
The Houthis kidnapped four Yemeni Airways planes in June, in a move that the internationally recognized government considered a “terrorist” act.
