UN: Stockholm agreement does not feed one child in Yemen

SANAA, Jan. 10 (YPA) – The significant progress that has been made in Yemen’s political track through the Stockholm agreement has not fed a single hungry child in the country to this day, The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock briefed the Security Council on Wednesday.

Lowcock told Th United Nations  Security Council UNSC members at the UN headquarters in New York that the Stockholm Agreement, and your resolution 2451, is already having an impact.

“I cannot yet report to you that the wider humanitarian situation in Yemen is any better. It remains catastrophic,” he added.

Lowcock indicated that over than 24 million people now need humanitarian assistance – that’s 80 per cent of the population, including 10 million people just a step away from famine. More than 3.3 million people have been displaced and over 600,000 of them in the last 12 months.

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