A Press Conference Will be in Sana’a to Present Latest Developments in Captives Exchange File

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SH.A.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will hold a press conference on Wednesday in the capital Sanaa to present the latest developments in the captives exchange file signed in Sweden’s consultations.

In a statement, the ICRC said that the ICRC’s Media and Communication Coordinator in Yemen, Ms. Mirella Hodeib, will discuss the nature of the ICRC’s assumed role in the implementation of the joint release of detainees agreed by the parties to the conflict in Yemen recently in Sweden, according to the statement.

The head of the National Committee for Captives’ Affairs Abdul Qader al-Mortada called on the United Nations to take a strong stance against the impeding party, in the absence of seriousness shown by the party of coalition against the file.

Al-Mortada stressed that Salvation national government and the National Committee for Captives and Missing Persons provided all the information that it has about thousands of prisoners in all Yemeni and foreign parties to the United Nations.

National Committee for Captives’ Affairs said on last Friday that it informed the Saudi side through the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen that one of the Saudi captives is sick and his condition is worsening.

The committee offered the Saudi side an urgent deal for the captive in exchange for releasing a number of wounded captives and that the operation would be carried out through the United Nations.

The committee confirmed that it had informed the International Committee of the Red Cross about the prisoner’s condition and had been visited by the ICRC several times.