UN “Ready to Help Supervise Management of Yemen’s Hudaydah Port”

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The United Nations said it is ready to help supervise Yemen’s Hudaydah seaport to protect the vital supply lifeline from “potential destruction”, the world body said on Friday.

Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the country’s three-year-old conflict amid international concern that half the population, or some 14 million people, could soon be on the brink of famine.

UN spokesman Rheal LeBlanc told reporters in Geneva that UN envoy Martin Griffiths had specific ideas about managing the port that he would present to the parties to the conflict.

“As he [Griffiths] has said many times, the UN stands ready to work with the parties on a negotiated agreement, to grant a supervisory role for the UN in managing the port, which would protect the port itself from potential destruction, and preserve the main humanitarian pipeline to the people of Yemen,” LeBlanc said.

The port is an important supply line to much of the country.

The Saudi war on Yemen started in March 2015.

An estimated 85,000 children under five may have starved to death in Yemen since 2015, Save the Children said on Thursday.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team