Almotamar.net - Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf condemned on Sunday the continuation of the Saudi-led aggression countries in holding four cranes presented by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to Hodeidah Port.

Sharaf affirmed that such move locates under penalty of harming the Yemeni people and deliberately denigrates the reputation, work and functions of the international organizations working under the umbrella of the United Nations, which requires to take action on it.

He called for a rapid and immediate intervention by the UN Secretary General's special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh, to release the cranes as a purely humanitarian issue.

The cranes will contribute to restoring the operational capacity of the port after destroying it by the Saudi aggression and will alleviate the effects of the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Yemen, Sharaf added.

The foreign minister urged the new American administration to take a clear and explicit position regarding the actions of the aggression and its allies, which do not serve the peace-loving nations and the international organizations working in the humanitarian field.