UNSC Calls for Unhindered Humanitarian Access in Yemen
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The UN Security Council urged allowing and facilitating safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access to all affected areas.
In a statement on Thursday, the council expressed concern over the impact that access restrictions on commercial and humanitarian imports have on the humanitarian situation, Xinhua news agency reported.
It called on the parties to immediately facilitate access for these essential imports into the country and their distribution in order to reach the entire civilian population.
The Security Council called for the full and sustained opening of all Yemen's ports and stressed the importance of keeping these functioning and open to all commercial and humanitarian imports, including food, fuel and medical imports.
The council also called for increased access to Sanaa airport for life-saving humanitarian supplies and movement of urgent humanitarian cases.
The council reaffirmed that denial of humanitarian access can constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
It noted that 22.2 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance, 3.4 million more than last year.
The council voiced deep concern about the acute vulnerability of civilians to outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria, in light of acute malnutrition, the threat of famine and the weakness of Yemeni institutions.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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