Hodeida (Debriefer) - The Yemeni UN-recognized government on Tuesday announced pausing of any next meetings with the UN Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA) until its head, General Abhijit Guha who "abides by the Houthi group", is replaced.
The UNMHA is now working to achieve its interests only, a government negotiator at the UN-supervised Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) said in remarks carried by Asharq Al-awsat.
The UNMHA "acts by itself but not within the agreed framework," Gen Khalid al-Kokabani added. Its members "have not observed our demands regarding the murder of Colonel Solaihi in an area the UN is responsible to secure.., as well as their failure to cooperate in relocating the mission's headquarters.
"Its presence inside Hodeida city makes the mission 100% subordinate to Houthi control.
"General Guha and aides don't think as much of helping the task succeed as of obeying and pleasing the Houthis to sustain their jobs and salaries. For the sake of their salaries, they have unfortunately lost the pact and Hodeida.
"We won't hold a meeting with this general before our demands are met," the government negotiator warned. "We've borne over our tolerance, sailing long distances to help meetings succeed, but no corridor has been opened, though the deal came mainly to open humanitarian corridors.
"Unimaginably awful violations persist – not only violations but attempts to occupy new lands – and the UNMHA reports what the Houthis want to say to the envoy.
"Gen Guha absolutely applies their [the Houthi] agenda, so the Yemeni foreign ministry called for his replacement."
On Sunday, the Yemeni official government accused the Houthis of restricting the movement of UNMHA, "whose work is unfeasible to continue under these conditions."
The Houthis have kept on undermining Hodeida pact and UNMHA work, restricting the mission's movement and rejecting to remove mines, open humanitarian corridors or allow UN patrols to roam inside the city, the foreign ministry tweeted.
The UNMHA "was not able to probe the Houthi targeting the liaison officer, Mohamed al-Solaihi," it added. The Houthis "rejected investigation into the event, and exploded the monitoring post where he was targeted, to undermine any UN probe."
