UN / YEMEN HODEIDA

A United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York today parties to the conflict in Yemen have a clear responsibility to protect civilians adding that “these are not obligations they can shift to others.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:39
• Production Date: 21 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FARHAN HAQ
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 1853304
• Parent Id: 1853304
• Alternate Title: unifeed170321i

Description

STORY: UN / YEMEN HODEIDA
TRT: 0:39
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

FEBRUARY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Med shot, journalist asking question
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson, United Nations:
“Parties to the conflict have a clear responsibility to protect civilian infrastructure and fundamentally to protect civilians. These are not obligations they can shift to others. The humanitarian community delivers assistance in Yemen solely based on needs and not on political considerations and will continue to do so through all available means.”
5. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

A United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York today (21 Mar) parties to the conflict in Yemen have a clear responsibility to protect civilians adding that “these are not obligations they can shift to others.”

In response to a question on media reports indicating that the UN had rejected the Saudi-led coalitions request to supervise the port of Hodeida, Farhan Haq said, “Parties to the conflict have a clear responsibility to protect civilian infrastructure and fundamentally to protect civilians; these are not obligations they can shift to others.”

Haq said Yemen was almost entirely dependent on the import of food and other commodities. He stressed it is essential that all parties to the conflict facilitate unhindered access to Yemen’s ports for humanitarian and commercial cargo, including Hodeida port which serves 70 percent of Yemen’s affected population as two-thirds of the population already food insecure and famine becoming a growing possibility. Haq said the humanitarian community would continue to deliver aid in Yemen “based on needs and not on political considerations.”

Last week, a boat carrying some 145 passengers, including women and children, came under fire off the Yemeni coast near Hodeida. The attack killed 42 people, including refugees.