ADEN, Yemen, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi-backed Yemeni government started Tuesday talks with foreign diplomatic missions in an attempt to unfreeze its bank accounts being frozen abroad as a result of the country's conflict.
In the southern port city of Aden, Governor of the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY), Mohammad Zimam, discussed with German Ambassador to Yemen, Carola Muller, measures of re-opening CBY's accounts frozen by some German banks, according to the state-run Saba news agency.
During the meeting, Deputy Governor of the CBY for foreign banking operations, Hussein Quaiti, said that releasing frozen accounts will help Yemen's central bank in paying its euro payment commitments in addition to resuming cooperation between the Yemeni and German banks, Saba said.
German banks were paying Yemen euro-paid commitment in accordance with a financial agreement signed between Yemen's Central Bank and Germany previously, it said.
The German ambassador also met with the country's Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik and discussed key financial issues and the suitable ways to support the war-torn Arab country economically.
Muller confirmed that she had communicated with German banks regarding unfreezing Yemeni bank accounts and is waiting for the response, according to Saba.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a civil war since the Houthi rebels overran much of the country and seized all northern provinces, including capital Sanaa in 2014, causing the legitimate government members to flee and settled in Aden.
The internal military conflict between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government recently entered its fourth year, aggravating the suffering of Yemenis and deepening the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
