The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) stated that the Saudi-led partnership conducting a destructive war on Yemen is allegedly holding hostage more than a dozen ships carrying crude oil and energy derivatives intended for Yemen.

Al-Masirah television network broadcasted on Thursday, October 22nd, that 12 tankers filled with over 325 thousand tons of oil are secured off the coast of Yemen for over 200 days. Two more ships are transporting diesel fuel and another has natural gas on board.

The YPC remarked that the containers have been inspected by the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM), in Djibouti, and acquired the necessary papers.

The Yemen Petroleum Company expressed that the Saudi actions are in blatant violation of the United Nations decrees, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), policies of international humanitarian law and other decrees relating to armed conflict in addition to the terms of the Stockholm agreement, which underlined in its whole the need to smooth the progress of the onset of basic materials and humanitarian support to the Yemen's western port of Hudaydah in a way that complies with the needs of the Yemeni nation.

Representatives from the well-known Houthi Ansarullah movement and appointees loyal to Riyadh-allied former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi conducted a circle of peace discussions in Rimbo, north of the Swedish capital city of Stockholm, in December 2018.

The discussions led to the declaration of a breakthrough deal.