The former British ambassador to Yemen, Edmund Viton Brown, acknowledged that the Stockholm Agreement signed in 2018 between the internationally recognized Yemeni government and the Houthi group gave the Houthis a wide influence and enabled them to strengthen their control over the Red Sea, in a recognition that highlights the cost of the agreement that the United Nations sponsored with international support, led by Britain.

Viton Brown stressed, in an interview with Al -Hadath channel, that the agreement provided the Houthis as an opportunity to blackmail the international community, noting that the port of Hodeidah should have been ran under international supervision to ensure its neutrality, but what happened helped the Houthis to establish their strategic influence, which led to the failure of the agreement to achieve its basic goals.

A former Yemeni official participated in the Stockholm negotiations revealed in previous statements that Britain had directly pressured the Yemeni government to sign the agreement, within the framework of political accounts related to regional balances, which enhances accusations of standing in London behind the concessions that the Houthis later invested in their favor.

The former British ambassador also revealed that he was under pressure from organizations, including Oxfam, without disclosing the details of these pressures, accusing the Houthis at the same time using "brutal methods" against the Yemenis.

It is noteworthy that the Stockholm Agreement was reached in December 2018 under the auspices of the United Nations, and stipulated that the military attack that the government forces was being launched, with the support of the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, towards the city of Hodeidah and its vital port, but the agreement was not fully implemented and remained widespread controversy until today.