Yemen Post holds international community responsible for denying 12 million civilians from postal services

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SANA'A October 9.2022 (Saba) - Yemen Postal Authority and Savings held the international community ethically and legally responsible for lobbying to stop the aggression and end the embargo on Yemen and open all land, sea and air access to postal services for Yemenis' human and civil communication with the world.

In a statement received on Sunday by Saba, issued on the occasion of World Postal Day, the Commission explained that this year, the international community commemorates this occasion and Yemen continues to experience a war of aggression led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates since eight years.

The slogan of World Postal Day, "Mail in the service of our planet", was to harness postal action in support of communities and peoples, however, the catastrophic effects of aggression and blockade extended to the postal services and disrupted their humanitarian role, depriving more than 12 million civilians of postal services.

The statement confirmed that the aggression coalition had systematically targeted the postal sector and its civilian installations, destroying more than 28 offices and postal establishments, closure of 84 post offices and suspension of more than eight regional and international postal exchange centres.

"The war of aggression against Yemen has resulted in the suspension of dozens of postal and postal financial services, as well as the imposition of an unjust blockade and a total ban on Yemen's air, land and sea ports, directly affecting the level of Yemeni postal services and its inability to provide its various postal services to millions of civilians in Yemen ".

The statement pointed out that Yemen Post, while participating in the observance of World Postal Day, affirms that victory is the right of the Yemeni people and enabling them to access to postal and various humanitarian services and strengthening its infrastructure to support transformative trajectories of postal action is a top priority that the international community must pay special attention on World Mail Day.

Yemen Postal Authority deplored the silence of international and regional postal organizations and federations and international community and human rights organizations, to the suffering of the Yemeni people.
E.M