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STORY: UN / YEMEN UN STAFF DETAINED
TRT: 00:43
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
24 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson at the dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“You will have seen that in a statement issued this morning by the office of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, that the de facto authorities in Sana’a detained additional UN personnel working in areas under their control. In response to that, we suspended all official movements into and within areas under the de facto authorities’ control. The measure will remain in place until further notice. Our officials in Yemen are actively engaging with senior representatives of the de facto authorities, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all UN personnel and partners.”
4. Wide shot, end of press encounter
The United Nations has suspended official movements in areas controlled by the de facto authorities in Yemen after the detention of additional seven UN personnel, according to a spokesperson.
“You will have seen that in a statement issued this morning by the office of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, that the de facto authorities in Sana’a detained additional UN personnel working in areas under their control,” Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters in New York today (24 Jan).
The UN described the measure as a precautionary step, with Haq noting, “The measure will remain in place until further notice.”
UN officials are pressing for the “immediate and unconditional release of all UN personnel and partners,” Haq added. Senior representatives of the de facto authorities are being engaged to resolve the matter.
