The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grendberg, stressed yesterday, Sunday, the importance of the regional calm continued a means of improving the opportunities to restore Yemen to the path of sustainable peace. This came during a Greatburg meeting yesterday in Muscat with senior Omani officials and with a spokesman for the Houthi group, Mohamed Abdel Salam.

According to a statement by the UN envoy office, the meeting discussed the recent arbitrary detention of additional employees from the United Nations, who were added to others who are still being held by the Houthis. Grendberg condemned these arrests, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all United Nations employees detained in Yemen, as well as workers in international and local NGOs, civil society organizations, and diplomatic missions held since June 2024, in addition to those detained since 2021 And 2023.

Grendberg discussed with Omani officials and Houthi leader, "the importance of continued regional calm is a way to improve the opportunities for restoring Yemen to the path of sustainable peace," and stressed "the commitment to work with all Yemeni, regional and international parties to ensure a progress towards a peaceful and comprehensive solution to the conflict in Yemen," according to The statement. The United Nations had issued, on Friday, a complete guidance of its offices in the areas under the control of the Houthi group in Yemen due to the group, Thursday, launched a new kidnapping campaign against a number of UN employees.

The UN resolution included the closure of all offices in the Houthi -controlled areas, in addition to preventing the official moves of local and international employees, while obliging them to stay in their places of residence, as well as suspending transportation to Sana'a or between other centers by land and air until further notice. The United Nations expressed its deep concern about the safety of its employees, calling on the local authorities to cooperate to ensure the release of the kidnappers and enable them to continue its necessary humanitarian operations in Yemen.

The Houthi Security and Intelligence Service, last June, implemented a kidnapping campaign against more than 50 United Nations and international and local organizations in the governorates of Sanaa, Hodeidah, Saada and Amran in the north of the country. Last October, the Houthi group referred a number of employees who were kidnapped by organizations to the "Criminal Public Prosecution", including three United Nations employees; Two of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO", and one of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, were arrested in 2021 and 2023.