The head of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) on Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Lieutenant-General Michael Lollesgaard, is expected to resume meetings with officers from the UN observer mission on Tuesday.
Informed Yemeni sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday that Lollesgaard would hold the meetings in Hodeidah to put forward an implementation mechanism for the redeployment based on the Stockholm Agreement struck between Yemen's legitimate government and Houthi militias.
The General would also follow up on the observer mission and on the modalities of the pullback of forces since the ceasefire came into force in December.
On several occasions, Houthis have rejected to implement Phase one on the mutual redeployment of forces by refusing to pull back from the ports of Hodeidah, Saleef, Ras Issa and from parts of the city.
Yemeni politicians consider the Stockholm Agreement dead because the pullback was supposed to have taken place two weeks after the ceasefire went into force on December 18, but that deadline was missed.
The Arab Coalition said Houthi militias have continued to breach the truce in Hodeidah, committing 41 violations in 24 hours on Saturday.
It said that since December 18, the militias have violated the ceasefire agreement more than 1,500 times, killing and injuring more than 600 people.
Lollesgaard has so far failed to convince Houthis to implement the Stockholm Agreement as the militias insist on making their own interpretations of the deal.
Houthis have informed UN officials that they refuse to deal with any redeployment plan in Hodeidah and its three ports if it means an end to their security and administrative presence in the city.
The insurgents have also stressed that the redeployment of forces, as stipulated in the agreement, does not mean handing the city and its three ports to legitimate government forces.
