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STORY: UN / YEMEN HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 OCTOBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT-NEW YORK CITY
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26 OCTOBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
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3.\tSOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief:
“There is a large amount of humanitarian need across many parts of Yemen and affecting about 80 percent of the population of Yemen. It is absolutely vital that we try to access everybody who is vulnerable or in need with whatever it is that they are needing in terms of humanitarian support. Of course the first and the best humanitarian response is for the fighting to stop.”
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5.\tSOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah, Adviser at the Royal Court, and General Supervisor of King Salman's Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid:
“We are impartial and we are not involved with any politics. The port of Yemen is not only Hodeidah, there are many ports of Yemen. There has been violations of other ports by the militias and the Centre has been active to ensure that relief and humanitarian activity reaches any port which is available, as I mentioned we have been able to reach all provinces in Yemen, including those under Houtis control. And as long as there is need we will support it in any area in Yemen.”
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7.\tSOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief:
“Within the principles of international humanitarian law principles, we make sure that to the extent that we can gain access and secure the resources to deliver to the most vulnerable and those with humanitarian need, that we do so without violating these principles.”
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9.\tSOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah, Adviser at the Royal Court, and General Supervisor of King Salman's Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid:
“All of us who are in the humanitarian activity would like to see a ceasefire to deliver activity provided that all parties will abide with the ceasefire. From our previous experiences, the ceasefire was not acknowledged, it was violated, and we want, if there is a ceasefire it has to be a realistic ceasefire.”
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At a press conference today (26 Oct) on the work of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center work in Yemen in partnership with OCHA, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Stephen O'Brien said “the best humanitarian response” in Yemen “is for the fighting to stop.”
The General Supervisor of the Center, Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah, who met with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, stressed that his organization was “impartial” and “not involved with any politics.”
Al Rabeeah noted that “there has been violations” of ports of entry into Yemen by militias, but “the Centre has been active to ensure that relief and humanitarian activity reaches any port which is available.”
He said “we have been able to reach all provinces in Yemen, including those under Houtis control. And as long as there is need we will support it in any area in Yemen.”
O'Brien said that “within the principles of international humanitarian law” OCHA and its partners “make sure that to the extent that we can gain access and secure the resources to deliver to the most vulnerable and those with humanitarian need, that we do so without violating these principles.”
Al Rabeeah said that everyone in the humanitarian community “would like to see a ceasefire to deliver activity provided that all parties will abide with the ceasefire.”
He noted that previous ceasefires had been violated, and said “if there is a ceasefire it has to be a realistic ceasefire.”
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and the United Nations recently have been holding meetings to discuss the allocation of Saudi pledged aid to Yemen.
In April, Saudi Arabia pledged the entire $274 million sought by the U.N. for emergency assistance in Yemen.
In September the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support the internally displaced persons in Yemen.
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