The Yemeni government and the pro-Iranian Houthi militias resumed their meetings for the second consecutive day in the Jordanian capital Amman to follow up on the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement signed in Sweden last month. The head of the delegation of the Yemeni government, Hadi Haig, While al-Houthi militia fired at the head of the redeployment committee, Patrick Camert, in a dangerous development that reaffirmed its terrorist approach.
In details, the Agence France-Presse that the representatives of the Yemeni government and the Houthis began yesterday morning meeting in the presence of representatives of the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen and the Red Cross in the hall gathered them inside a hotel in Amman.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced last Tuesday Jordan's approval of the request of the United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, to host Amman for a meeting on the prisoner exchange agreement between the two sides in Yemen.
For his part, said Hadi Hague that it was agreed on timetables to rework the time in the prisoner exchange agreement between the Yemeni government and the Houthis.
It was agreed on the basis of a three-day exchange of notes and a maximum of 10 days to respond to all comments made by the parties during the Amman meeting.
He pointed out that there are problems about the lists of names offered, indicating that he has 232 names of prisoners with the Houthis have not benefited from them until now, and must verify all names. He explained that the response to the remarks will clarify whether the Houthis to liquidate some of the prisoners.
He said there would be another bilateral meeting with the Huthis without any third party to study all the problems.
For his part, the Office of the Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, described Jordan's meeting positively and constructively.
On Wednesday, the United Nations representatives met in Amman with two representatives of the Yemeni government and the Iranian-backed Huthi militias to discuss the prisoner swap agreement with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The agency quoted the media attaché at the Yemeni embassy in Jordan, Mahmoud Shahra, as saying that "the Chairman of the Committee for the exchange of prisoners and detainees, the Yemeni government Hadi Hague, and in the presence of the committee member, Majid Fadil, handed over representatives of the United Nations lists of prisoners and detainees of the Houthi militias backed by Iran .
He explained that «representatives of the Houthi militias backed by Iran, handed over in their meeting with representatives of the United Nations lists of prisoners of the Yemeni government».
The United Nations made a breakthrough on Dec. 13 after eight days of talks in Sweden between representatives of the Yemeni government on the one hand and the Huthi rebels backed by Iran on the other.
The Office of the Special Envoy to Yemen is seeking to find common ground to overcome obstacles and prepare for the implementation of the final stages of the Agreement, which includes five phases, most notably the exchange of regulations,
In a dangerous development that reaffirms the terrorist approach of the rebel Houthi militias against both Yemeni and international legitimacy, Houthi gunmen fired bullets at the convoy of the head of the redeployment committee in the western city of Hodeidah.
Local sources said that the Houthis targeted the head of the redeployment committee, General Patrick Kamert, during inspecting the damage caused by shelling of several sites in the city of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast.
The incident comes to confirm the efforts of the Huthis to thwart what was agreed upon in the Swedish consultations last December and their determination to terrorize Kamert, whose task is to monitor their commitment to the terms of the agreement.
Earlier, Houthi's militia had accused Camert of bias, a few days after taking over the mission, after he refused a "fake" handover of the port of Hodeidah to rebels disguised in civilian clothes.
The governor of Hodeidah, appointed by the rebel militias, held a meeting with the directors and forced them, at gunpoint, to sign a document condemning the Dutch general.
The shooting comes after the Security Council's decision to establish an international mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement in Yemen and to increase the number of international observers to 75 for an initial period of six months to oversee the ceasefire.