The Yemeni Honey Unit of the High Agricultural and Fisheries Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation are preparing to hold the first National Yemeni Honey Festival in late June.

According to Sana’a-based Saba news agency, the festival aims to mobilize efforts and develop and protect the local product for honey producers and the Yemeni economy and to restore the reputation and status of Yemeni honey.

The chairman of the preparatory committee, a member of the Honey Unit of the Higher Agricultural and Fish Committee Dhiab al-Ashmori, told Saba on Friday that the festival seeks to encourage local marketing of Yemeni honey and its activation and link beekeepers’ associations with companies and shops that sell and market the local product at home and abroad.

He pointed out the importance of the festival in educating the community to fight external honey and its damage and its impact on the reputation and quality of Yemeni honey, in addition to activating the community and making it aware of the importance of Yemeni honey and its nutritional and pharmaceutical value.

Al-Ashmori saw the festival as an opportunity to develop the honey sector and support the Yemeni economy by spreading the culture and information about the product, marketing and promoting it, and contributing to its global marketing.

He called for active participation in the festival and joined forces of all to develop and protect the local product and restore the reputation and status of Yemeni honey.

He urged the media to participate in the festival to educate the community about the importance of developing and protecting Yemeni honey, as a Yemeni monetary product, heritage, and identity.

The UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, expressed his hope that the UN-mediated truce would to establish comprehensive peace in Yemen.

In an interview with France-Presse Agency, Grundberg said that the extension of the additional two-month truce in Yemen would give the people hope that the situation could come back to normal, considering the extension a first step on the path to a broader peace agreement.

He affirmed that the truce gave the people an unprecedented humanitarian respite in the history of war and breathing space to engage in a political settlement.”

“The armistice allowed us to take steps to restore life” in part to the Yemeni people, “and I think that this matter is important, but also symbolic,” Grundberg added.

The UN envoy expressed his hope that this return to normal life would not be limited to the return of flights to Sana’a airport.

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) in Sana’a has on Friday announced that the Saudi-led coalition has released a detained fuel vessel but still keeps another one in captivity.

The company’s official spokesman Essam Al-Mutawakel stated that “in conjunction with the release of “Voice Energy”, an oil ship, the coalition forces seized another ship “Uhud”, which is carrying 30,929 tons of gasoline, in a new violation of declared UN armistice.

The spokesman of YPC has renewed the demand of the international community, Security Council, and international human rights to pressure the Saudi coalition and oblige it not to practice piracy on fuel ships.

Despite the ongoing UN-sponsored truce, the coalition of Saudi coalition continues its piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite having undergone inspection and received UN clearance.

This violation aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.