Decree 13611 was signed in 2012 by Barack Obama, then US President.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed an executive order for another year that allows the imposition of unilateral economic sanctions against those who Washington believes threaten peace and stability in Yemen. This follows from a notice circulated by the White House press office.
“The actions and policies of some former members of the Yemeni Government and others that threaten peace, security and stability in Yemen continue to pose a particular and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. I renew for another year the state of emergency declared by Executive Order 13611 (16 May 2012),” the document says.
Decree 13611, which allows the application of these sanctions, was signed in 2012 by then President Barack Obama. It gave the U.S. Treasury Department the authority to freeze the assets of those individuals and organizations in the U.S. that, from the point of view of Washington, seek to torpedo the settlement process in Yemen. In addition, U.S. citizens were forbidden to do any business with those against whom the sanctions would be used. The document applied to individuals as well as to institutions and organizations.
In Yemen, since August 2014, the confrontation between Government forces and Husite insurgents has continued. It entered its most active phase with the invasion of a coalition led by Saudi Arabia in March 2015.