(excerpts) Safer Tanker Some good news to share with you on the situation around the Safer tanker. Earlier today, the team that stabilized the decaying Safer tanker and transferred more than 1.1...
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Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General (15 September 2022) [EN/AR]
*Yemen “Our colleagues in Yemen tell us they are concerned about reports of the confiscation and destruction of civilian-held land and farms in Houthi-controlled areas in the district of Bayt...
Note to correspondents from the Office of the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General. Yemen: Safer oil tanker
The United Nations stresses the urgency of resolving the ongoing threat posed by the Safer oil tanker, an aging floating storage and offloading vessel moored off Yemen's west coast, 60 kilometres...
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Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 12 February 2020 - Yemen, Syria, Libya
(excerpt) Yemen Just wanted to say that we have been getting a number of questions in recent days about our humanitarian aid to Yemen, and I just wanted to make the following thing very clear: The...
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Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 13 January 2020 - Syria & Yemen
(excerpt) Syria Turning to Syria, we remain deeply concerned about the safety and protection of three million civilians in Idlib in north-west Syria, over half of whom are internally displaced,...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 26 November 2019 - Yemen
(excerpt) Yemen Turning to Yemen, the Head of the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) [Abhijit] Guha, is deeply concerned by the escalation of violence witnessed in the last...
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Regular press briefing by the Information Service: Syria, Yemen, World migration trends (15 November 2019)
Excerpts Syria Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that, the previous day, a note to correspondents had been circulated in order to provide information on...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 5 September 2019 - Yemen
(excerpt) Yemen Staying on a humanitarian topic, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a diphtheria vaccination campaign in Yemen targeting over...
Note to Correspondents: Meeting of the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, with H.E. Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, President of the Republic of Yemen
The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, met today with H.E. Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, President of the Republic of Yemen, in Riyadh, Saudi...
Note to Correspondents: Meeting of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (7 February 2019)
Hudaydah, Yemen The members of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) met for a third time between 3 and 6 February aboard a UN vessel berthed in the inner harbour of Hudaydah port. In...
Note to correspondents on Yemen (3 February 2019)
New York The third meeting of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), chaired by General Cammaert, convened today on board a UN vessel berthed in the port of Hudaydah. Both the Government of...
Note to Correspondents: Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffiths, concludes a regional visit to Sanaa and Riyadh, and remains encouraged by the political commitment of the Parties to the Stockholm Agreement
The Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, concluded his visit to Riyadh, Sanaa and Hudayda. In Sanaa, Griffiths met with Ansar Allah leader, Abdulmalik Al Houthi, in...
Note to correspondents on the situation in Yemen, 29 December 2018
New York The opening of the Hudaydah–Sana’a highway as a humanitarian corridor to deliver humanitarian assistance, as agreed during the first Joint meeting of the Redeployment Coordination Committee,...
Note to Correspondents on Yemen, 23 December 2018
General Patrick Cammaert and his advance team arrived in Hudaydah this evening (23 December). Prior to his arrival in the city, he met with the Houthi appointees to the Redeployment Coordination...
Note to Correspondents in response to questions on Yemen, 22 December 2018
Retired General Patrick Cammaert, Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), landed in Aden, Yemen, this afternoon (22 December), where he held a face-to-face meeting with the Government...
Regular Press Briefing by the Information Service, 14 December 2018: Yemen - Peace talks and impact for WFP
(excerpt) Yemen - Peace talks and impact for WFP Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, referred journalists to the documents distributed on the previous day about...
Regular Press Briefing by the Information Service, 27 November 2018 - Yemen food stock
(excerpt) Yemen: food stocks Hervé Verhoosel, for the World Food Programme (WFP), read the following statement: ““Over the past two weeks, operations at Hudaydah port have decreased by nearly half...
Regular Press Briefing by the Information Service, 26 October 2018 - Yemen – situation in Hodeidah
(extract) Responding to questions from the press, Andrej Mahecic, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), read the following statement: “On 24 October, at least 21 civilians were killed and 10...
Regular Press Briefing by the Information Service, 16 October 2018 - Yemen operation update
Yemen – operational update Hervé Verhoosel, for the World Food Programme (WFP), said that Yemen was currently facing the world’s worst hunger crisis, with almost 18 million people not knowing where...
Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, 15 October 2018 - Yemen
Yemen And on Yemen, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, condemned the reported killing of at least 15 civilians and injury to 20 others when the minibuses they were traveling [in]...