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Yemeni Ansarullah Starts Unilateral Withdrawal from Hudaydah

Yemeni Ansarullah Starts Unilateral Withdrawal from Hudaydah
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By Staff, Agencies

The Head of Yemen’s Ansarullah Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, said in a tweet on Saturday that the revolutionary group’s unilateral withdrawal from three main ports came as a result of the Saudi-led coalition's refusal to implement the Stockholm Agreement, which laid out the groundwork for peace.

Al-Houthi further noted that withdrawing from parts of al-Hudaydah, al-Salif and Ras Isa is set to start on Saturday at 10:00 Sana’a time.

For its part, the United Nations said the Ansarullah movement has agreed to unilaterally pull out its forces from three key ports over the next four days, a necessary step for the implementation of a ceasefire deal the warring sides reached in Sweden in December.

Lt. Gen. Michael Lollesgaard, who heads the Redeployment Coordination Committee [RCC], a UN mission to monitor the deal, said in a statement on Friday that the movement would make an “initial unilateral redeployment” of its forces from Yemen’s three key ports of Hudaydah, Salif and Ras Isa between May 11 and May 14.

The movement, which has been significantly helping the Yemeni army against a Saudi-led military coalition for the past four years, and the country’s former Saudi-backed government, led by ex-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, signed a UN-brokered truce deal in Stockholm on December 13.

More than 70 percent of Yemen’s imports used to pass through the docks of Hudaydah, a lifeline for the war-ravaged country's crippled economy. However, since June last year, forces of the United Arab Emirates, a significant ally of Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen, and Hadi’s militia have laid a tight siege to the city.

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