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STORY: UN / YEMEN
TRT: 02:32
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2021, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
23 AUGUST 2021, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Yemen representative
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA):
“We reiterate our call on the Government of Yemen to urgently allow the entry of all essential commercial supplies –including fuel ships– to Hudaydah without delay. All parties must prioritize civilian needs and abstain from weaponizing the economy, particularly in light of the critical humanitarian situation in the country.”
5. Wide shot, Martin Griffiths addressing Security Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Restrictions on commercial imports beyond the international arms embargo – I want to be very clear about this, Mr. President – should be lifted right away. That means Hudaydah and Salif Port should be opened without additional impediment. Other market manipulation like profiteering downstream through the informal market, must also stop. Doing this will – as Khaled already said – boost civilian’s access to the goods they need to survive.”
7. Wide shot, Henrietta Fore on screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF):
“Being a child in Yemen means that you have probably either experienced or witnessed horrific violence to which no child should ever be exposed. It means that if you do survive the war, you might carry the physical and emotional scars with you for the rest of your life, undermining your development and happiness as an adult. Fighting around your community means it may be impossible for you to get vaccinated against polio or other diseases. And if you do get sick, there may be no hospital or clinic for you to safely visit.”
9. Med shot, Khiari and Griffiths
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah al-Sa’adi, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Yemen:
“The Houthi militias have used Al-Hudaydah and its port as a base to prepare and launch booby-trapped vessels that are remotely operated and to park sea mines, in addition to spreading piracy, which is a danger to regional and international peace and security, especially as it is targeting in an unprecedented manner international navigation and trade routes, which affects the global energy security in one of the most important international maritime water ways and the straits of Bab el-Mandeb. They are also using the Stockholm agreement to destabilize Yemen and the region targeting civilians and civilian objects in Hudaydah.”
11. Wide shot, Council
A top United Nations official today (23 Aug) told the Security Council that all parties in Yemen “must prioritize civilian needs and abstain from weaponizing the economy, particularly in light of the critical humanitarian situation in the country.”
Mohamed Khaled Khiari, who is the Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific at the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA), called on the Government of Yemen “to urgently allow the entry of all essential commercial supplies –including fuel ships– to the port of Hudaydah without delay.
In his briefing to the Council, the new Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said restrictions on commercial imports “should be lifted right away.”
Griffiths who served as the Special Envoy for Yemen until July, said “Hudaydah and Salif Port should be opened without additional impediment. Other market manipulation like profiteering downstream through the informal market, must also stop.”
Doing this, he added, will “boost civilian’s access to the goods they need to survive.”
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore told the Council that “being a child in Yemen means that you have probably either experienced or witnessed horrific violence to which no child should ever be exposed.”
Fore said, “it means that if you do survive the war, you might carry the physical and emotional scars with you for the rest of your life, undermining your development and happiness as an adult. Fighting around your community means it may be impossible for you to get vaccinated against polio or other diseases. And if you do get sick, there may be no hospital or clinic for you to safely visit.”
For his part, Yemeni Ambassador Abdullah al-Sa’adi said, “the Houthi militias have used Al-Hudaydah and its port as a base to prepare and launch booby-trapped vessels that are remotely operated and to park sea mines, in addition to spreading piracy, which is a danger to regional and international peace and security, especially as it is targeting in an unprecedented manner international navigation and trade routes, which affects the global energy security in one of the most important international maritime water ways and the straits of Bab el-Mandeb. They are also using the Stockholm agreement to destabilize Yemen and the region targeting civilians and civilian objects in Hudaydah.”
Today’s meeting follows the appointment of Hans Grundberg as the Secretary-General’s new Special Envoy for Yemen. He will begin his term next month.
