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UN Yemen Envoy: World Rejects Houthi Violations


Mon 10 Feb 2020 | 10:00 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths expressed the international community's rejection of Houthi policies, describing the ceasefire failure as "unfortunate."

His remarks came during his meeting with the President of the Yemeni Parliament Sultan Al-Barakani, who handed him a file listing the violations of the Houthi militia alligned with Iran.

Griffiths affirmed his assertion that the international community did not accept the Houthi practices, considering that the collapse of the armistice was "unfortunate, especially since the Yemeni people are suffering from the overall situation.

The UN special envoy confirmed also his intention to make all possible efforts to accomplish his mission to reach a political settlement" and save the people in Yemen and rescue their children.

Meanwhile, the Houthi militia has again targeted the joint monitoring points of the United Nations-sponsored Redeployment Coordination Committee in the city of Hodeidah, in western Yemen.

Yesterday evening, the Houthi militia targeted the fourth control point artillery station, located in the Al-Manzhar neighborhood adjacent to Al-Hodeidah airport.

In addition,  the Houthi's loyals opened intensive sniper fire towards the liberated residential neighborhoods of Sanaa Street inside the city of Al-Hodeidah during the past hours, according to the military media.

The UN Monitoring Committee assigned five points at the end of October last year in order to monitor the ceasefire in the city, which Houthi militias have not committed to since the entry into force of the UN truce in December 2018.

Yemen is witnessing a fragile political and security situation since 2015 when Houthis took control of the capital, Sanaa, and pushed the Yemeni army to the south.

Since then, several international reports have registered the transfer of Iranian weapons and artilleries to the Shiite armed factions rulling the capital.