The UN effort to implement the largest prisoner exchange agreement in Yemen.
According to Sputnik, a Yemeni political source announced that the United Nations is trying to hold a meeting between the representatives of the self-proclaimed Yemeni government and the Ansarullah-affiliated government of this country in the city of Geneva.
He further added that the aforementioned meeting will be held with the aim of examining ways to advance the process of prisoner exchange between the two sides.
This source added: A preliminary meeting will be held on Friday to discuss issues related to the implementation of the largest prisoner exchange process in Yemen since the start of the Saudi coalition’s aggression against this country.
He emphasized: In this meeting, the exchange of 2,223 prisoners and detainees in Yemen will be discussed and discussed. Also, the list of names of prisoners who are to be released, including military personnel affiliated with the Saudi aggressor coalition, is finalized.
Yemen’s Ansarullah movement announced on October 15 that it had signed an agreement with the Saudi delegation in Sana’a regarding the list of names of prisoners to be released in this process.
On March 27, it was announced that an agreement was reached between the self-proclaimed government of Yemen and the Ansarullah movement of this country through the United Nations envoy’s office to implement the largest prisoner exchange agreement between the two sides.
Based on this, the Ansarullah movement of Yemen is supposed to release 823 prisoners, including 16 Saudi prisoners, along with prominent figures related to the self-proclaimed government of Yemen, including “Nasser Mansour Hadi” and “Mahmoud Al-Sabihi”, the former defense minister of this country. The two sides had previously exchanged more than a thousand prisoners in October 2020.
