UN Security Council to hold new session on Yemen

NEW YORK, Oct. 05 YPA) – The UN Security Council will hold on Thursday a new session on Yemen to discuss to developments in political, military and humanitarian situation in the country, and it is expected that the focus will be on the reasons for not extending the UN truce after its end in early October without renewal.

According to the Council’s monthly agenda, the meeting will be held next Thursday morning, on October 13, and will be in the form of a briefing followed by a closed consultation session.

Hans Grundberg, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, is expected to brief the Council on the latest developments about the UN truce, which had expired on October 2 without reaching an agreement to renew it due to differences over the disbursement of salaries.

He will also address the continued efforts to renew the truce, and recent discussions with various parties in order to bring the views closer in the hope of agreeing on an expanded truce, in accordance with his proposal.

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths is expected to brief on the latest developments in the humanitarian situation in Yemen and obstacles face the implementation of humanitarian response programs in the country, in light of the large funding gaps suffered by relief agencies that threaten to stop the rest of their life-saving humanitarian programs for millions of Yemenis.

Major General Michael Beary, the  head of United Nations Mission to support the Hodeida Agreement (UNMHA), is also expected to brief on the progress of the mission’s works.

E.M