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The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, told the Security Council that while “hopes and expectations” for an agreement on a nationwide ceasefire and measures to improve living conditions in Yemen have not been met, “efforts in finalising and implementing a UN roadmap remain undeterred.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / YEMEN
TRT: 03:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, flag outside UN Headquarters

14 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Various shots, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen:
“We had hoped – and the Yemenis had expected – that, by this Ramadan, we would have had an agreement on a nationwide ceasefire and measures to improve living conditions in Yemen. I had hoped I would be briefing you about the preparations for an inclusive political process. Public sector employees across the country should have been receiving their salaries and pensions. Oil exports should have resumed, which could have enabled more effective service delivery and improved economic conditions. And we should have had another agreement on the release of prisoners, allowing loved ones to return home in time for Ramadan. While these hopes and expectations have not, to date, been met, our efforts in finalising and implementing a UN roadmap remain undeterred.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen:
“The longer the escalatory environment continues, the more challenging Yemen’s mediation space will become. With more interests at play, the parties to the conflict in Yemen are more likely to shift calculations and alter their negotiation agendas. In a worst-case scenario, the parties could decide to engage in risky military adventurism that propels Yemen back into a new cycle of war.”
6. Wide shot, OCHA’s Edem Wosornu speaking
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“For most people in Yemen, food insecurity is an issue of affordability, not accessibility. As people in Yemen very clearly told me when I visited the Governorates of Aden, Sana’a, and Amran last week – they want sustainable solutions to the causes of their humanitarian needs, and the opportunity to define for themselves how to rebuild their futures.”
8. Wide shot, Yemeni Ambassador Abdullah al-Saadi speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah al-Saadi, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Yemen:
“The continued aggression against commercial ships carrying food and humanitarian assistance to Yemeni ports is considered an economic siege against us. It will only exacerbate the humanitarian situation, hiking prices of basic foodstuff, increased costs of transportation, insurance, and overall costs. It will also hinder the supply chains and lead to food insecurity.”
10. Wide shot, end of Council session
11. Pan left, Grundberg walks up to the stakeout podium
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen:
“Recent developments, including the continued escalation in the Red Sea, is complicating the mediation space for finalising, and implementing the United Nations roadmap. This roadmap is meant to operationalise the parties’ commitments to a ceasefire and the resumption of an inclusive political process under UN auspices and measures to improve living conditions in Yemen. I also caution that the longer the escalatory environment continues, the more challenging it will become. I therefore emphasise the importance of remaining focussed on the long term aims that we are seeking to achieve in Yemen. The needs and the priorities of the Yemeni population have not changed since the recent regional escalation, and they have only grown more urgent.”
13. Pan right, Grundberg walks away

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The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, today (14 Mar) told the Security Council that while “hopes and expectations” for an agreement on a nationwide ceasefire and measures to improve living conditions in Yemen have not been met, “efforts in finalising and implementing a UN roadmap remain undeterred.”

Grundberg said, “I had hoped I would be briefing you about the preparations for an inclusive political process. Public sector employees across the country should have been receiving their salaries and pensions. Oil exports should have resumed, which could have enabled more effective service delivery and improved economic conditions. And we should have had another agreement on the release of prisoners, allowing loved ones to return home in time for Ramadan.”

Instead of such an agreement, Grundberg told the Council that regional developments since the war in Gaza have impacted Yemen.

He said, “the longer the escalatory environment continues, the more challenging Yemen’s mediation space will become. With more interests at play, the parties to the conflict in Yemen are more likely to shift calculations and alter their negotiation agendas. In a worst-case scenario, the parties could decide to engage in risky military adventurism that propels Yemen back into a new cycle of war.”

Briefing on the humanitarian situation, the Director of Operations and Advocacy at Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Edem Wosornu said, “for most people in Yemen, food insecurity is an issue of affordability, not accessibility. As people in Yemen very clearly told me when I visited the Governorates of Aden, Sana’a, and Amran last week – they want sustainable solutions to the causes of their humanitarian needs, and the opportunity to define for themselves how to rebuild their futures.”

Yemeni Ambassador Abdullah al-Saadi for his part told the Council that “the continued aggression against commercial ships carrying food and humanitarian assistance to Yemeni ports is considered an economic siege against us. It will only exacerbate the humanitarian situation, hiking prices of basic foodstuff, increased costs of transportation, insurance, and overall costs. It will also hinder the supply chains and lead to food insecurity.”

Outside the Council, Grundberg told reporters that “recent developments, including the continued escalation in the Red Sea, is complicating the mediation space for finalising and implementing the United Nations roadmap,” which was “meant to operationalise the parties commitments to a ceasefire and the resumption of an inclusive political process under UN auspices and measures to improve living conditions in Yemen.”

He also cautioned that “the longer the escalatory environment continues, the more challenging it will become” and emphasised “the importance of remaining focussed on the long term aims that we are seeking to achieve in Yemen.”

The needs and the priorities of the Yemeni population” he said, “have not changed since the recent regional escalation, and they have only grown more urgent.”

Since November of last year, Ansar Allah has been targeting vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. And, in response, since January, the United States and United Kingdom have struck military targets in Ansar Allah-controlled areas.

Last week, Ansar Allah attacked a bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden, killing and wounding several crew members. Another vessel that Ansar Allah recently struck, the Rubymar, left an oil slick and has now sunk in the Red Sea along with her cargo.

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