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STORY: UN / YEMEN REAX
TRT: 01:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
14 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to Yemen. The Secretary-General joins the Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, today welcoming the start of the release operation of conflict-related detainees. Nearly 900 are being released by the parties over three days, starting today. This comes under implementation of the plan agreed by the parties at the last meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Detainees’ Exchange Agreement, which took place in March, in Switzerland. And as you may know, the Supervisory Committee is co-chaired by the Office of the Special Envoy and the ICRC with the membership by the parties.”
4. Med shot, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Mr. Grundberg said that this release operation comes at a time of hope for Yemen. He urged the parties to immediately and unconditionally release all arbitrarily detained individuals. And just to flag that the parties have committed to meet again in May to organize more releases.”
6. Wide shot, Dujarric at podium
A UN spokesperson said, “The Secretary-General joins the Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, today welcoming the start of the release operation of conflict-related detainees.”
Briefing journalists today (14 Apr) in New York, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “Nearly 900 are being released by the parties over three days, starting today.”
He continued, “This comes under implementation of the plan agreed by the parties at the last meeting of the Supervisory Committee on the Detainees’ Exchange Agreement, which took place in March, in Switzerland.”
He also said that the Supervisory Committee is co-chaired by the Office of the Special Envoy and the ICRC with the membership by the parties.
Dujarric continued, “Mr. Grundberg said that this release operation comes at a time of hope for Yemen. He urged the parties to immediately and unconditionally release all arbitrarily detained individuals.”
He concluded, “the parties have committed to meet again in May to organize more releases.”