A Generous Offer from the Houthi

A Generous Offer from the Houthi
What are the implications for shipping of Sunday’s announcement?

On Sunday 19 January, the so called Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center of the Houthi group in Yemen announced that it would stop its “sanctions” on commercial shipping, with certain exceptions. 

Whatever your stance on the conflict in Gaza, there are some points worth unpicking about how the Houthi present their position. There are six implications of their announcement which occur to me so far…with potentially more. 

Firstly, attacks on commercial shipping are represented as “sanctions.” That seems unjustified. Sanctions are economic acts which fall short of violence or acts of war or piracy. The Houthi attacks on commercial shipping breach international law and several IMO conventions on freedom of navigation.

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