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POLICY foreign companies against plundering energy sent out several warning messages to the
resources of the war-wracked Arab country, tanker ship, which had anchored in the port
Iraqi Oil Ministry to agree stressing that Sana’a will spare no effort to of Qena located in the Rudum district of the
province, and did not allow the vessel to loot
defend national sovereignty and safeguard
with Kuwait on joint oil public interests and wealth. the Yemeni nation’s natural resources.
A senior member of the political bureau
Ahmed Dares called on multinational oil
fields and gas companies to enter into negotiations of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance
with the Sana’a government before taking
movement has sharply criticized the
The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul- any actions to explore and extract crude oil December military and security cooperation
Ghani, said on Monday that Baghdad is and natural gas in Yemen, and cautioned of agreement between Yemen’s Saudi-backed
seeking to reach an agreement with Kuwait adverse consequences in case the warning is Presidential Leadership Council and the
regarding a mechanism to benefit from the not taken into serious consideration. United Arab Emirates (UAE), denouncing it
joint oil fields between the two countries, “Sana’a will not remain idle in the face of as a failed attempt aimed at justification of the
according to Al Qabas newspaper. any escalation of tensions by the Saudi-led Abu Dhabi regime’s aggression against Yemen.
Abdul-Ghani statement took place on the coalition of aggression in the economic field,” “The recent military and security
sidelines of the meeting of the Organization the Yemeni oil minister noted. cooperation agreement between the UAE
of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries In late October, Yemen’s National Salvation and Saudi mercenaries could be viewed as
(OAPEC) held in Kuwait. Government issued a warning after targeting an effort in line with the atrocious Saudi-led
Abdul-Ghani said that there are joint a cargo ship off an oil terminal in the war- aggression, and meant to implement its evil
committees between the two countries to wrecked country’s south to prevent Saudi- conspiracies,” Ali al-Qahhoum said.
study the mechanism of benefiting from the backed forces from using it for oil exports. “We tell member states of the Saudi-led
oil fields located in the border areas. In a statement, Yemen’s Foreign Ministry coalition that their plots are all doomed to
“We hope to reach an agreement on the also denounced the UN Security Council’s failure, and Yemeni army troops and security
joint oil fields between the two countries,” reaction to the “warning strike” at the al- forced will hopefully thwart their conspiracies
Abdul-Ghani stated. Dubba terminal, where a Greek oil tanker was and upset the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and
The oil ministers of OAPEC countries docked to load oil. The statement came after the UAE,” he added.
including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, the council denounced the strike as a serious Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war
Qatar, Egypt and Syria, in addition to the threat to the peace process and stability of on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration
assistant oil ministers of Bahrain, the UAE Yemen. with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics
and Algeria discussed the situation in energy The ministry stressed that Yemen will not support from the US and other Western states.
markets. hesitate to defend national sovereignty, and The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-
Additionally, the Iraqi Minister of Oil was safeguard public interests and wealth against friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansour
elected to assume the presidency of OAPEC any act of looting or abuse. Hadi and crush the popular Ansarullah
in 2023. Back in November, Yemeni army troops resistance movement, which has been running
IRAQI NEWS and allied fighters managed to stop a foreign state affairs in the absence of a functional
oil tanker in the waters off the energy-rich government in Yemen.
Yemeni minister warns southern Shabwah Province as it was trying to to meet any of its objectives, the war has
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed
smuggle hundreds of thousands of barrels of
against resource theft fuel out of the impoverished Arab nation. killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis
and spawned the world’s worst humanitarian
At that time, Spokesman for Yemeni
The minister of oil and minerals in Yemen’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree crisis.
National Salvation Government has warned said in a statement that the country’s forces PRESS TV

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