UN monitoring team visits Hodeidah port

HODEIDAH, Dec. 24 (YPA) – UN team monitoring ceasefire in Hodeidah province, led by General Patrick Cammaert, on Monday visited Hodeidah port to see damage caused by Saudi-led coalition bombing on the port’s infrastructure.

During the visit, the UN team also got acquainted with some effects of the blockade, which has largely affected the shipping and commercial activity at the port, which covers food and medicine needs of more than 20 million people.

General Cammaert said that he would work urgently and permanently for restoring the normal position of the port in receiving humanitarian aid and its commercial activity.

He called on the port authorities to cooperate with the team to restore the port to what it was in the past according to the agreements that emerged from the recent consultations in Sweden.

Earlier, the UN team held a meeting with acting governor of Hodeidah Mohammed Quhaim, during which they discussed how to implement Sweden agreement on the port of Hodeidah.

In the meeting, Quhaim confirmed that the local authority in the province would provide all facilitates to the team to carry out its tasks.

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