14 February 2024 As prepared for delivery Thank you, Madam President, And thank you to Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, for his update. While Yemen’s terrible conflict and associated human...
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Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Remarks on Behalf of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen New York, 16 August 2023 As prepared Madam President [Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Mrs. Linda...
Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy Division, on Behalf of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths - Briefing to the Security Council on the Humanitarian Situation in Yemen
Madam President [Permanent Representative of Switzerland, H.E. Pascale Baeriswyl] This is my first briefing to this Council in my role as Director of Operations and Advocacy. I look forward to...
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, Opening remarks at the High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, 27 February 2023
As delivered Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Let me start by repeating the warm welcome you have just heard from the SecretaryGeneral and our co-hosts. Thank you for coming today to support the...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths - Statement for the Security Council Briefing on Yemen, 16 January 2023
As prepared for delivery Thank you, Mr. President. I want to start by echoing the Special Envoy’s warm words of welcome to the incoming members of this Council. As we usher in a new year, I am...
Reena Ghelani, Director of Operations and Advocacy Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Remarks on behalf of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, 22 November 2022
New York, 22 November 2022 As delivered Thank you, Madam President, As the Special Envoy already mentioned, many of the truce’s provisions continue to hold despite its expiration on 2 October. This...
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Acting Director for Operations and Advocacy, Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, on behalf of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator - Statement to the Security Council on Yemen
UN Headquarters, New York, 15 August 2022 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. Like the Special Envoy, we welcome the recent extension of Yemen’s truce. We hope this extension will lead to an...
Statement by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths - Remarks to the UN Security Council on Yemen, 14 April 2022
Thank you, Madam President, As we’ve been hearing from Hans, hope has become something of a scarce commodity in Yemen. But today, I think we may well be hopeful that we are seeing the kind of changes...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, remarks at High-Level Pledging Event for Yemen, 16 March 2022
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to echo the warm words of welcome from my co-hosts and from my SecretaryGeneral. It is difficult to overstate the importance of today’s event. We know, we...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths remarks to the UN Security Council on Yemen, 15 March 2022
New York, 15 March 2022 As delivered Mr. President and distinguished members of the Council, Thank you for this opportunity to brief you today on the humanitarian situation in Yemen. After more than...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths - Statement to the Security Council on Yemen, 15 February 2022
New York, 15 February 2022 As Delivered Thank you, Mr. President. I’ll start by saying what a privilege and a pleasure it is to be sitting next to Hans here, and to be with him in this chamber. I...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, Opening Remarks on the High-Level Side Event on the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, at the 76th United Nations General Assembly
As delivered Thank you Nima. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank the European Union and the Governments of Sweden and Switzerland for hosting this important event. It has been almost...
On Behalf of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths, UN OCHA Deputy Director, Ms. Ghada Eltahir Mudawi, Statement to the Security Council on Yemen, 10 September 2021
As delivered Thank you, Madam President, and thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council. As Hans has just described, conflict is raging across many parts of the country, especially in Ma’rib...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mr. Martin Griffiths Statement Briefing to the Security Council on Yemen, 23 August 2021
Thank you very much, Mr. President. And thank you, Khaled. So, I am very pleased to join you today on what is, of course, quite a familiar topic, although from a rather different point of view. And...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock briefing to the Security Council on Yemen, 15 June 2021
As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to start by saying that several weeks after starting this job, in October 2017, I went to Yemen. I wanted to see for myself what was going on there and...
On Behalf of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Mark Lowcock, UNOCHA Director of Operations and Advocacy, Ms. Reena Ghelani - Remarks to the Security Council on the SAFER tanker in Yemen
New York, 3 June 2021 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President. Over the past two years, Under-Secretary-General Lowcock has briefed the Security Council 23 times on the SAFER tanker, including at a...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock - Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, 12 May 2021 [EN/AR]
New York, 12 May 2021 As delivered Thank you very much, Mr. President. Let me, like Martin, start by wishing everyone an Eid Mubarak. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen – complementing what Martin has...
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock: Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen (15 April 2021) [EN/AR]
As delivered Thank you very much, Mr. President. Like Martin [Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen], my warmest wishes too for the holy month The situation in Yemen –...
Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock - Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, 16 March 2021
Thank you very much, Madam President. We and my colleagues in the leadership of the humanitarian system, we have been warning you for a long time now that Yemen is speeding towards a massive famine...
Statement by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, on Yemen (22 February 2021)
As Yemen enters its seventh year of conflict, the United Nations, together with the Governments of Sweden and Switzerland, is organizing a high-level pledging event on 1 March to raise money for the...