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Ahmed Awad Ahmed Binmubarak

lines on the record: 21
first: 2021-01-14
most recent: 2021-01-14
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sources: un-security-council

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“We also welcomed the recent visit that the Special Envoy made to the interim capital, Aden, his condemnation of the terrorist attack as a war crime and his visit to the destroyed airport VIP lounge, so that he could see the scene of the horrific crime.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“In that connection, despite everything that has happened, despite the pain and the wounds, we continue to reaffirm that we are engaged and interacting positively with all serious initiatives and calls to end the coup and achieve peace. We also reiterate our support for the efforts of Mr. Griffiths, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, to achieve a comprehensive, sustainable peace built on the agreed terms of reference, namely, the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative and its Implementing Mechanism, the outcomes of the All-Inclusive National Dialogue Conference and the relevant Security Council resolutions, chief among them resolution 2216 (2015).”
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“The aim of that programme is to strengthen security, stability and economic recovery; improve living conditions; provide basic services to all Yemenis; relaunch State institutions, financial and monetary policy tools, monitoring and oversight mechanisms and the accountability framework; and combine military and security decision-making with a view to unifying efforts to achieve sustainable peace and end the coup. In that regard, we value the major role played by our brethren in the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia, in ensuring that the Agreement succeeds and is implemented quickly. We consider it a model to be emulated and proof that, where goodwill and noble intentions can be found, peace is not far off.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“We once again call on the Council to place more pressure on the Houthi militias to grant the United Nations technical team access to the tanker in order to inspect it, carry out initial repairs and remove oil from it, without restrictions or conditions, in order to prevent this looming disaster. The implementation of the Riyadh agreement has led to the formation of a technocratic Government. This development has been welcomed by the international community and all peace partners. The Government is currently operating from the interim capital, Aden, determined and committed to taking forward the national programme to which the Yemeni people aspire.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“The Government will not hesitate to provide those organizations with every form of support and assistance for their work and to facilitate their various activities and projects. The Houthi militias continue to prevaricate with regard to the FSO SAFER oil tanker issue. They continue to manipulate the issue and are using it to bargain with and coerce the international community, refusing to heed warnings that more than 1 million barrels of oil may soon leak from the tanker and oblivious to the severe environmental, economic and humanitarian consequences that such a leak could have for Yemen and the countries of the region. It is unacceptable that the Houthis continue to procrastinate and string the United Nations along with illusions ahead of each monthly meeting of the Security Council.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“I take this opportunity to convey my thanks and appreciation to all humanitarian and relief workers for their tireless efforts to alleviate the suffering of Yemenis and to deliver humanitarian assistance to the those in need, despite the obstacles and difficulties that have been put in their way and the threats that have been directed towards them by Houthi militias, including the recent restrictions that were imposed on the work and activities of organizations in areas still under Houthi control. Those restrictions prevent those organizations even from holding virtual meetings using video-teleconferencing technology. We reiterate our condolences to the International Committee of the Red Cross for the deaths of three of its staff in the terrorist attack on Aden International Airport and wish the wounded a speedy recovery.”
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“Statistics from the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report underscored the importance of redoubling efforts to alleviate the suffering of Yemenis. Food insecurity has many serious consequences that affect not only the lives of the present generation, but also the future of coming generations. That is why we once again call for a transition from emergency response programmes to programmes aimed at building resilience and promoting sustainable development. Moreover, the continued collapse of the national economy will further compound the humanitarian disaster, hence the need for financial resources to be mobilized urgently at the international level in order to support the Government programme and efforts to address economic challenges and its policies and plans to stabilize living conditions.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“The Prime Minister has formed a high-level Government commission composed of all the competent authorities to take the action needed to address all challenges. The last few years of the war sparked by the Houthi militia, along with the spread of the coronavirus disease pandemic, have exacerbated the humanitarian situation, leaving about 80 per cent of the population in need of some form of humanitarian assistance and 14.3 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Human suffering continues, including food insecurity, one of the most formidable challenges that the Yemeni Government is working to overcome with the support of coalition partners and all its friends in the international community. Regrettably, Yemen was grappling with those challenges even prior to the Houthi coup in 2014.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“We therefore welcome the recent decision of the United States Government to designate the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, in line with the demands of the Yemeni Government and the consensus of the Yemeni people. That decision proves that the Houthis are a terrorist group and not serious about achieving peace, that they are attempting to prolong the war and that they have caused the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, as they remain beholden to the subversive agendas of Iran in the region. We reiterate that the Yemeni Government is fully committed to facilitating the activities of all international agencies, humanitarian organizations and trade and banking institutions in order to maintain the steady flow of assistance and sufficient provisions to all our people throughout Yemen, without neglecting any region.”
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“This militia has committed crimes and grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, include bombing homes and places of worship, violating the rights of religious minorities, displacing those who oppose it, arresting and torturing journalists and political activists, placing cities under siege, indiscriminately targeting civilians, planting landmines, using health-care and educational facilities for military purposes, destroying the country’s economic institutions, attacking civilian objects in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, undermining security and stability in Yemen and the region, and threatening international maritime navigation lines in the Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandab.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“The Houthis have been so resolute in their bid to thwart United Nations mediation that they have even targeted the Government’s liaison officer in the Redeployment Coordination Committee in Al-Hudaydah. They have continued their violations, recently attacking the liberated areas on the western coast in an attempt to expand their presence, in flagrant violation of the Hodeidah Agreement. These militias have gone so far as to prevent UNMHA from conducting field visits in order to carry out the necessary investigations into the recent escalation in the western coastal areas, including in Durayhimi. These violations continued with the Houthi shelling of the wedding hall in Al-Hudaydah last week, which resulted in the death of many innocent women and children.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“To this day, Ta’iz continues to be subjected to systematic shelling, which has killed many children, women and civilians. In contrast, the Houthi militias remain openly intransigent as they pursue their efforts to limit implementation of the terms of the agreements and even hinder any understandings on confidence-building measures. As you know, Mr. President, the Houthi militias have been deploying their forces in Al-Hudaydah, hampering the work of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) continuously since the beginning of 2019, impeding the delivery of humanitarian assistance, blocking the road to the emergency assistance convoys that began immediately after the signing of the Stockholm Agreement and continuing to plunder humanitarian aid and deprive beneficiaries of the necessities of life.”
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“Addled by illusions and calls for the divine right to govern and control, the militias are holding State institutions hostage, pursuing military escalation and prolonging their senseless war, thereby increasing the human suffering of Yemenis day after day, in what has become the most tragic crisis on Earth. Twenty-five months ago today, the Stockholm Agreement was signed. That would not have been possible had the Yemeni Government not put the interests of the Yemeni people above everything else, had it not strived to alleviate their suffering and had it not continued to make concessions in order to ensure the success of United Nations mediation of the three agreements, namely, the Hudaydah agreement, the agreement on exchange of prisoners and the Ta’iz understandings.”
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“Such a peace will fulfil the aspirations of Yemenis to build a modern, democratic civil State that preserves the freedom and dignity of the people and in which the values of justice, equality, the rule of law and the equitable distribution of wealth and power are realized. The Government has made many concessions to achieve peace and ensure that the language of dialogue prevails over the language of war and destruction throughout previous rounds of consultation with the Houthi militias, in the hope of reaching a comprehensive political settlement to end the conflict. However, that positive and flexible approach has been met with the recalcitrance and arrogance of those militias.”
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“These and other horrific crimes that have been committed in areas controlled by those militias trouble the human conscience and encapsulate the tragedy of millions of civilians, including women and children, and reveal a policy, approach and daily behaviour rooted in killing, terrorism and criminality that is aimed at forcing others to submit to their dynastic, sectarian project. The Yemeni Government, fully cognizant of its responsibility to the Yemeni people, is fully committed, under the leadership of President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour, to achieving a comprehensive and sustainable peace that is based on solid, sound foundations and that will not give rise to conflict in the future.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“An athlete and his son were killed and two other children were injured in an attack on a sporting club in Ta’iz. A Houthi official in Ibb governorate raided a home in the absence of the head of household and killed a pregnant woman in front of her four children. The Houthis bombed a wedding hall in Al-Hudaydah, killing seven women and injuring dozens more. The Haymah area in Ta’iz governorate was bombed, raided and destroyed, and dozens of families were displaced. Civilians, mostly youth and children, were taken hostage, and many of them were killed and their bodies were mutilated. There are fears that the number of civilian casualties, particularly among women and children, will rise, and that normal life will be disrupted.”
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“From this platform, I call on the Security Council to unequivocally condemn that terrorist attack in a manner commensurate with the horror of the crimes witnessed by the whole world, thereby vindicating the innocents whose blood was shed and deterring the would-be perpetrators of terrorist acts that imperil security and peace in Yemen and the region. I also ask that you take a firm stand in dealing with this heinous, bloody crime, which defies all human customs and values and the rules of international humanitarian law and human rights law, and that you bring the perpetrators to account. Houthi militias continue to commit crimes and target civilians, civil institutions and densely populated areas in Ta’iz and Al-Hudaydah governorates. Since last December, multiple crimes have been committed.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“The terrorist attack on Aden International Airport was clearly a deliberate attempt, in blatant defiance of the will of the international community, to quash the last chance to achieve peace in Yemen, undermine the efforts of the international community and create chaos to prolong the war. Thousands more would have been killed and injured and the already deteriorating humanitarian situation would have worsened if the perpetrators had achieved their objective, which they came ever so close to doing.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“That attack was followed by a drone attack on the Government residence in the Ma'ashiq area The fact that the target was a civilian international airport packed with passengers and those welcoming arriving passengers and that innocent civilians, including journalists, students, humanitarian workers, Government officials, women and children were killed, is sufficient evidence that this was a terrorist attack. The perpetrators’ objectives confirm that a terrorist entity carried out the attack, which investigations have conclusively proven was orchestrated and carried out by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia. A copy of the report of the investigative commission has been distributed to all members.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“We have returned bearing the banner of peace and with a responsibility to normalize the lives of our citizens; serve our people and realize their hopes and aspirations to live in peace, one that is comprehensive and lasting; restore security and stability; improve living conditions; and confront challenges. We will do so together with our people, relying on the support of our brothers and friends. I address you today because God ordained that we survive the heinous guided missile attack that was carried out by terrorists in an attempt to kill the entire technocratic Government upon its arrival at Aden International Airport on Wednesday, 30 December 2020.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source
“At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. Ambassador, on your presidency of the Security Council this month. I wish you and the delegation of Tunisia every success. I also take this opportunity to congratulate the new non- permanent members of the Council. I address you today from the interim capital of Aden, the city of peace, civilization and life, and the capital of all of Yemen following the return to Aden of the technocratic Government formed in accordance with the Riyadh agreement, whose provisions the Council is called upon to implement.”
2021-01-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/56 (2021) · source