The Saudi-led Arab coalition reiterated on Monday its support for the mission of United Nations special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths. Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said that the alliance backs Griffith’s efforts in all fields at the Sweden peace talks between the warring Yemeni parties. Moreover, he revealed that the coalition had held talks with International Committee of the Red Cross representatives during which it received a list of the names of 340 captives held by the Iran-backed Houthi militias. The list was delivered to the ICRC representatives, who will hand it over to the relatives of the captives. Maliki told a press conference in Riyadh that the joint forces financially supported the legitimate Yemeni government in order to provide medical treatment to the wounded forces of the national army. It has also prepared means to treat them inside or outside Yemen in cooperation with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center. In addition, he said that the United Arab Emirates recently announced that it had provided treatment to more than 124 wounded in Egypt. On the humanitarian level, Maliki said that since March 2015 and until December 2018, the coalition has issued 35,413 permits to deliver aid through all Yemeni portals. Two hundred and eighty-eight permits were issued between December 3 and 10 alone. He stressed that Saudi Arabia was supporting Yemen through its comprehensive humanitarian operations plan. It provided the country with three cranes that were delivered to the ports of Aden and Mukalla. The cranes will help in unloading relief aid and raise the operational capacity of the ports. Furthermore, he highlighted the delivery of the second batch of Custodian to the Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s oil derivatives grant. The batch boasted 65,000 tons of fuel and 32,000 tons of diesel fuel that will be used to operate 64 power plants to service 10 provinces. The two batches have so far cost $120 million.
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