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Alyemany

lines on the record: 231
first: 2014-11-19
most recent: 2018-05-22
sittings or episodes: 21
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“Gamba's Office, in particular her willingness to adopt preventive measures for the protection of children, collaborate with different Governments and dissociate herself from the kind of propaganda that does not serve cooperation but widens the gap between the United Nations agencies and Member States. We also look forward to her Office's assisting the Yemeni Government in implementing the action plan for 2014 and to protecting children from the effects of armed conflict.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“International organizations are weakly represented in liberated areas, where, as we have repeatedly said, they have no offices. This exposes these organizations to unilateral and unreliable sources. The United Nations continues to neglect our request to remedy this situation. In conclusion, we hope that the progress achieved by the Yemeni Government in the area of protecting children will be reflected in future reports of the Secretary-General through the delisting of the armed forces and air coalition from the report's annex. We welcome the cooperation of Ms.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“These organizations and individuals are seeking by any and all means to transform the political crisis into a humanitarian crisis and are fabricating the figures to direct accusations against the Arab Coalition and the Yemeni Government. For its sources, the United Nations is relying on the registries of the Ministry of Health and hospitals controlled by the Houthi militias, which are deliberately fabricating such registries and providing the United Nations with baseless figures. They are deliberately exaggerating the reality to achieve political gain. Since the beginning of Ms. Gamba's work, we have objected to the monitoring approach that has been adopted, and we have requested greater transparency and affirmed our readiness to cooperate with her Office to uncover the truth.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“First, we strongly denounce and find it strange that the report equates the legitimate Government and the armed coup militias when it is the legitimate Government alone that is cooperating with United Nations and seeking to protect its people and prevent the recruitment of children. The Government is committed to international law and to the implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2216 (2015), which is seen in the progress achieved in the period between the 2015 report and the current report. The United Nations continues to rely on civil society organizations and individuals affiliated with the Houthi militias that are deliberately misleading international public opinion as its sources.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“The agreement also contains provisions for exploring the possibility of creating units in the Yemeni Army for protecting children and for training armed forces personnel on the protection of children. Based on our commitment to the protection of children and to preventing their suffering in situations of conflict and violence, we have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, which aims to protect children and schools during armed conflicts. As such, Yemen is the seventy-second State to endorse the Declaration. Indeed, in her briefing this morning, Ms. Gamba welcomed Yemen's signing of the Declaration. With respect to the Secretary-General's report for 2016, I would like to make the following observations.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“Further, an action plan was signed in May 2014 between the Government of Yemen and UNICEF to end child recruitment in the armed forces. We have repeatedly requested that specialized United Nations agencies help the Government to begin implementing the plan, particularly in the light of the fact that Houthi coup militias in Yemen have extensively recruited and exploited children, which is reflected in the figures contained in the Secretary-General's reports on children and armed conflict for the years 2015 (S/2016/360) and 2016 (S/2017/821). An agreement has been developed with the Office of the Special Representative to establish a system to register newborns and infant deaths so that information can be referenced in determining the age of applicants who seek to join the military.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“Mr. Alyemany (Yemen) (spoke in Arabic): My delegation would like to align itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Norway on behalf of the signatory countries of the Safe Schools Declaration. I would like to reiterate the commitment of the Yemeni Government to protecting children and preventing their recruitment in armed conflicts. The Government has taken several measures to those ends, including a decree issued in November 2012 by the Yemeni president, Mr. Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour, prohibiting the recruitment of children under 18 into the army or security forces. He has directed all military and the police forces not to recruit to children under 18 and stressed that such recruitment was unlawful.”
2017-10-31 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8082 (2017) · source
“In conclusion, we highly value the great efforts being exerted by the international community and the Ambassadors of the Group of 18 to achieve security and stability in Yemen. I take this opportunity to reiterate the call made by President Hadi to the friends of Yemen to resume their efforts to implement peace and reconstruction in the country. On behalf of Yemen, I would like to renew our thanks and appreciation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as to the rest of the States of our coalition, for their efforts to restore legitimacy, security and stability in Yemen and aid its people.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“We could open the airport in Sana'a today if the militias abided by those conditions. Dealing with the Yemeni crisis from a humanitarian perspective, despite its importance, without paying due attention to the political perspective or working towards arriving at a sustainable political solution to the Yemeni issue, is simply an exercise in damage control that would prolong the war and suffering caused by the coup carried out by the Houthi-Saleh militias. Therefore, the Security Council's serious desire to deal with the humanitarian situation in Yemen is being put to the test, because it must help deal with the root causes of the crisis, as opposed to just treating the symptoms.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“Faced with such a catastrophic situation, we call upon Member States to shoulder the responsibilities of the Yemeni crisis by pressuring the rebel forces to implement Security Council resolutions and offering real concessions, so that Yemen can be spared from further bloodshed. We must work towards allowing access to humanitarian aid for all Yemenis living under the control of rebel forces. The Yemeni Government is most concerned with alleviating the suffering of our people. The Yemeni Government has repeatedly expressed its readiness to reopen the airport in Sana'a to humanitarian flights, provided that the militias exit the airport and hand over management duties of the airport to the professional staff that ran it before September 2014, under the supervision of the United Nations.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“There must be further initiatives in order to build confidence and mobilize the resources ofthe State and transfer tax and customs revenues at the Hudaydah port to the branch of the Central Bank in Hudaydah, in coordination with the branch in Aden. The Government has also pledged to cover the deficit accrued from paying the salaries of civil servants, especially in major sectors, such as education and health care and areas under militia control. Our people have not been paid in a year and the militias refuse to cooperate with the Yemeni Government, the Special Envoy or international organizations, such as the World Bank, to pay the wages of our people.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“That has been enabled by capital being gained during the war by people who are taking advantage of opportunities to rob humanitarian aid in order to traffic fuel and weapons, loot public funds and impose mafia- style protection tactics on normal citizens who are being deprived of their monthly wages. School curriculums have not been safe from the onslaught. They have been replaced by extremist, racist curriculums that encourage a culture of conflict, violence and religious sectarianism, which represents a clear reproach to the rest of the world. The Yemeni Government calls upon the international community to pressure the rebels to accept the Hudaydah initiative of Mr. Cheikh Ould Ahmed.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“In the governorates under control of the coup forces, there is a dire humanitarian situation, as a result of the rebels' refusal to pay wages to employees of the State in the sectors of health care and education. The militias continue to loot funds and resources from the customs and tax authorities. They continue to loot the reserves of the Central Bank in order to fund the so-called Houthi popular committees and war efforts. They continue to fully drain economic and financial institutions. The role of the private sector has diminished and, in its place, a sector of war merchants has been created.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“Additionally, it faces great challenges in the economic, security and services sectors because of the war and the destruction that it has wrought on all facets of daily life. Yemen is in dire need ofinternational assistance in order to support its own efforts to entrench peace and security and activate services in the liberated areas, commence reconstruction and remedy security breaches. It must also continue with its efforts to combat terrorism. Yemen continues to need support, due to the levels of poverty and the lack of food security, especially in areas that are being shelled on a daily basis by the militias, such as the besieged city of Taiz, which has been under siege for over two and a half years.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“It strongly confirms that any sustainable solution to the Yemeni crisis can be based only on the withdrawal of the militias responsible for the coup and the return of power to the State, as well as the handing over of weapons and rockets of the State. Only the State should be in possession of weapons. Before the General Assembly, President Hadi said that the rockets targeting the territories of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as those that the militias have threatened to use against the territories of the United Arab Emirates, which have a range of over 600 kilometres, are Iranian rockets (see A/72/PV.ll). He said that they are distinct from the rockets that are in the possession of the Yemeni army. The Yemeni Government has limited capabilities and is undergoing a very complicated situation.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“The experience of the Ayatollah's oppressive regime, which was rejected by the Iranian people, cannot be imposed on Yemen. The terms of reference for peace in Yemen, which are embodied in the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the outcome of the National Dialogue Conference and the relevant Security Council resolutions, include the necessary elements to guarantee a sustainable solution to the Yemeni crisis. Moreover, resolution 2216 (2015) is gaining more strategic importance with time. The framework of reference for the international community is growing, along with the unified position of the Security Council regarding the Yemeni crisis.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“The attendance and participation of the party that carried out the coup in all the rounds of negotiation in the past were simply maneuvers used in order to gain time and impose a criminal scheme that aims to destroy Yemen and assault neighbouring States. That is all within an agenda that is being carried out by Iran in order to spread tension and destabilize the region by creating tension and fabricating conflicts, which fuel sectarian violence and swell feelings of hatred. Such actions spread violence and chaos within the region. Sustainable peace will not be achieved if Iran does not stop interfering in Yemen's affairs and in the affairs of the region. The world must today take a collective stand in order to reign in Iran's expansionist greed.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“The Yemeni Government continues to believe that war cannot be the means by which the Yemeni crisis will be settled. As everyone knows, the Yemeni Government did not resort to taking up arms when the Houthi militias controlled Sana'a. The Government has made concessions in order to arrive at the controversial Peace and National Partnership Agreement, which was rejected by the party responsible for the coup. That party then hijacked the State, thinking that they would get away with it by killing the State's leadership and its opponents and burying the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the results of the National Dialogue Conference, which all Yemenis agreed to.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“According to the final report of the Panel of Experts established in accordance with resolution 2266 (2016), that alliance has looted 70 per cent of the State's resources (see S/20l7/81). It rejects the peace initiatives that have been submitted and presented by the Special Envoy to the Secretary-General on Yemen in Geneva and Kuwait, the most recent of which was the Hudaydah initiative, which was welcomed by the Yemeni Government and discussed in detail by the President during his meetings in New York. What cannot be disputed is that the Houthis do not have the political will to directly engage with the requirements for peace in Yemen. The political will of the Houthis is being held hostage by outside forces that do not hope for security and stability in Yemen or the region.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“Three years after the beginning of this human suffering, which is unprecedented in the history of Yemen, all observers can see that the Houthi/Saleh alliance is exploiting the security, stability, sovereignty and humanitarian situation in Yemen. The spread of health-related disasters is being used in a strategy of precariousness hatched by Tehran in the context of its expansionist view of the region and carried out with the Houthi tentacles in Yemen. In Yemen we can either accept the rule of the Houthi militias and the imposition of a Hizbullah-like model or face death and destruction, as well as the spread of instability and tension in the region. The Houthi-Saleh alliance continues to usurp authority.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“It has killed tens of thousands of Yemeni citizens and it continues to indiscriminately shell the heroic city of Taiz. It has caused the spread of cholera and turned Sana'a into an enormous prison detaining thousands of Yemen's best citizens in terms of thinkers, academics, students and journalists, not to mention the fact that children are being recruited. The coup has demolished the homes of its opponents and has changed the educational curriculums in line with a narrow, dynastic, religious perspective that proclaims a divine right to govern the population without observance of the principles of democracy and pluralism in which we all believe.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“The war runs contrary the national consensus, embodied in the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council and its means of implementation, and the outcomes of the National Dialogue for a peaceful political transition in Yemen, which was adopted under the auspices of the United Nations and with the blessing of the Security Council. The Security Council held an extraordinary meeting in Sana'a in January 2013 in order to support the aspirations of the Yemeni people towards building a democratic federation based on justice, equality, human rights and good governance. Three years have passed since the Houthi/Saleh coup d'e'tat - the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by Yemen - began, and the miserable circumstances in my country are apparent. The coup has displaced millions of Yemeni people, inside and outside Yemen.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“However, we cannot put an end to the war and achieve peace unilaterally. On the contrary, putting an end to the war requires the acceptance by the coup party to return to the negotiating table and to accept the elements ofpeace, as well as the terms of reference, in order to put an end to the suffering of our patient Yemeni people. The opening of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly coincided with the three-year anniversary of the war, which is being waged by the Houthi/Saleh coalition against the people of Yemen.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“The Council meets today two weeks after a great deal of activity at the United Nations following the opening of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly. The Republic of Yemen participated in the opening of the session with a high-level delegation, led by His Excellency President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour. The meetings and dialogues held with various senior United Nations officials, as well as Security Council member States, with regard to the situation in Yemen were especially important. The primary message of those meetings can be summarized in the willingness of the Yemeni Government to immediately meet the requirements for sustainable peace and in order to put an end to the war in Yemen under the auspices of the United Nations and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Yemen.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“Mr. Alyemany (Yemen) (Spoke in Arabic): I extend to the Security Council a greeting ofpeace on behalf of the people of Yemen, who aspire to peace. At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your excellent leadership of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to express our great gratitude to you, Sir, for giving us this opportunity to speak before the Council today. We would like to express our gratitude to the Secretary- General and his Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed for the great efforts they are undertaking. The Yemeni Government fully supports their efforts aimed at achieving at a sustainable peace agreement that would put an end to the coup against the Yemeni State and end the war that has been waged by the Houthi-Saleh coalition against our people since September 2014.”
2017-10-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8066 (2017) · source
“We appreciate the efforts of the Security Council and the group of 18, and we thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other States of the Arab coalition for their efforts to support legitimacy in Yemen. We call upon all members of the Security Council to continue to make unified efforts to end the Yemeni crisis by taking a firm stance against the masterminds cf the coup and to bring greater pressure to bear on them in order to ensure that they comply with all resolutions of international legitimacy and international humanitarian law.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“In conclusion, I should like to stress once again that a sustainable, effective and genuine solution to the situation in Yemen requires that the reasons for the coup be addressed and national political reconciliation ensured, as well as a return to legitimacy, the restoration of State institutions and the normalization of living conditions through a peace process that puts an end to the hijacking of our State by Tehran-backed militias. This requires also that the international community bring pressure to bear on the Houthis and Mr. Saleh to resume, and genuinely engage in, the dialogue for peace and make concessions for the sake of Yemen.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“Allow me to express our thanks and appreciation to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, donor countries, the Friends of Yemen, the King Salman Centre for Humanitarian Aid and Relief, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and other relief agencies in the brotherly United Arab Emirates and Kuwait for swiftly responding to the consequences of the humanitarian situation and the cholera outbreak in Yemen.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“To date only 33.3 per cent of the United Nations humanitarian response plan for Yemen 2017 has been funded, despite the fact that we are in the second half of the year. I therefore appeal to the human conscience and to all States Members of the United Nations to swiftly cover the remaining requirements of the plan for the current year. We call upon those States that made pledges at the Geneva conference to rapidly fulfil their commitments to the United Nations, so that we can overcome the cholera epidemic and famine in Yemen.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“And yet the conscience of the international community has not yet driven it to raise its voice in protest at such violations of human rights, and the deafening silence continues, as if it were normal to consider that international humanitarian law does not apply in Yemen and that the international community does not care about Yemenis. Under the leadership of President Mansour, the Government of Yemen considers it vital to mobilize international and Arab support in order to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation and the cholera outbreak in every region of Yemen. The challenges that we have been facing exceed our capacity to address them. We therefore call on the international community to provide assistance and devote greater attention to this issue.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“The Yemeni coalition monitoring human rights violations has documented 917 violations by Houthis, resulting in 187 civilians killed and another 205 injured, as well as 236 kidnapped and 33 who have been the victims of forced disappearance. We continue to document a growing number of children recruited by Houthis, and the Office of the Special Envoy has updated us on those numbers. It is distressing to see the numbers, which grow daily, of children among the victims in Taiz and other regions, and ofthe disappeared and those who are detained in Houthi prisons.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“We are expecting an important visit from Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director of UNICEF, and Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, in the next few days. However, I feel compelled to note the inadequate performance ofthe Office ofthe Resident Coordinator, a subject that we have continually brought up in our letters to the Secretariat, most recently in our communique of 26 June, which calls the Resident Coordinator's work unprofessional, biased and politicized, ignoring as it does the tragic situation that the militias have caused, particularly in Taiz, which has now been under siege for more than two years, as well as the deaths and displacement of women, children and the elderly in the indiscriminate shelling in June of civilian services and hospital facilities by the Houthi militias.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“Despite all of this, we will continue to extend our hand and choose the path of a just, comprehensive and peaceful solution based on the terms of reference - one that paves the way for a genuine peace and does not lead to a fool's war, accept blackmail or reward the coup leaders, terrorists and gangs for violating our State's national sovereignty. The only way to reach a sustainable solution to the crisis and the war is by addressing their root causes. I must emphasize how crucial we consider the current cooperation between our Government and the United Nations and all its agencies in Yemen. I would like to take this opportunity to express our deep gratitude to all the United Nations workers in Yemen who continue to fulfil their noble humanitarian responsibilities in dealing with the cholera outbreak, despite the desperate conditions.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“In its presidential statement of 15 June (S/PRST/2017/7), the Security Council stressed its support for the Special Envoy and his recommendations for peace. Unfortunately, however, the Houthi-Saleh coalition has rejected those proposals. I have outlined the position of the Yemeni Government - its quest for sustainable peace and an end to a war that was never of our choosing, but was imposed on us - to the Council over and over again. The Houthi militias have turned a blind eye to all the options for peace and all the sacrifices and concessions that our President has made in an effort to avoid a foolish war in which the biggest loser is the great Yemeni people.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“We therefore stressed in our communique' of 3 June that we would continue to support the efforts of Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, and when he met with our President in May we emphasized our support for his latest proposals and ideas. They include the withdrawal of militias from Hudaydah governorate, as discussed in last year's peace consultations in Kuwait, and the establishment of a technical committee of economic and financial experts to help the Government establish an appropriate and urgently needed mechanism to pay employee salaries and address the problem of livelihoods in regions controlled by the coup leaders, in order to provide the income needed to cover such expenses.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“Today it is more urgent than ever to achieve peace in Yemen, based on the three locally, regionally and internationally agreed-on terms of reference - the Initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council and its Implementation Mechanism, the national dialogue outcomes and the relevant Security Council resolutions, particularly resolution 2216 (2015). They remain the main drivers of the efforts of the United Nations and the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Yemen, all of which the Yemeni Government fully supports with a view to making progress towards peace. Our Government continues to be ready to make all necessary concessions, however difficult, to achieve the peace that the great and resilient Yemeni people deserve, because we believe that war is the choice of fools and peace the choice of the brave.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“The environmental health and humanitarian situation in regions under the control of the coup's leaders has been complicated even further by an outbreak of cholera that has killed hundreds of Yemenis. Despite the international community's appeals and the intensified efforts of the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme and the King Salman Center for Humanitarian Aid and Relief, the militias continue to reject cooperation and subjugate our people to dangerous blackmail. They believe that making these health and humanitarian disasters as bad as possible will force the international community to come up with a solution that will enable them to sue for a political compromise.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“Mr. Alyemany (Yemen) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your wise conduct of the work of the Council this month, and to thank you for giving us this opportunity to speak to the Council. Almost two and a half years since the bloody coup in Yemen - led by Houthi militias allied with our country's former President and supported by Iran, a State that is a sponsor of terrorism around the world - my country is currently dealing with an extremely serious and complex health and humanitarian situation. Today Yemen is making headlines because of the death, poverty and disease that the militias have brought on us since September 2014.”
2017-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7999 (2017) · source
“We reiterate our sincere thanks and appreciation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and all the Arab coalition countries working to restore legitimacy in Yemen. We call on all members of the Security Council to pursue their unified efforts to end the humanitarian suffering in my country and to take a firm stance against those responsible for the coup and further pressure them to comply with the relevant international resolutions and respect international humanitarian law.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“However, the militias have stolen 581 billion rials from the tax revenues and refuse to pay the salaries of those under their control. This has redoubled the humanitarian suffering of the people and made it harder for the Government to remain current in the payment of the salaries of its employees. To conclude, we reaffirm the Yemeni Government's strong belief that a genuine, effective and sustainable solution to the deteriorating humanitarian and economic situation in Yemen requires efforts to overturn the coup d'etat, restore legitimacy and State institutions, and return to normal life. In that regard, we commend the efforts of the Security Council and the Ambassadors of the group of 18 to achieve security and stability in Yemen.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“It is no surprise that the first responder to the calls of His Excellency President Hadi Mansour has been the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has pledged $10 million, $8 million of which support construction projects in the liberated areas, while the other $2 million are earmarked for the Central Bank of Yemen to prevent the devaluation of the national currency. In line with efforts to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation, the Government is still working hard to provide salaries to all Government employees, who have not been paid for eight months thanks to the militias, which have stolen all the money from the Central Bank and its reserves. We have provided salaries in some liberated areas and allocated some funds to areas under the control of the coup d'etat.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“The ongoing efforts of the Government of Yemen are focused on rebuilding the liberated zones and pursuing its efforts to get rid of the terrorist gangs, in cooperation with the Saudi-led coalition, the United Arab Emirates and the international community, led by the United States of America. We are striving jointly with the international community and the specialized United Nations agencies to speed the recovery and transition, from the humanitarian-relief stage through reconstruction. The Special Envoy referred to the meeting that was convened in Riyadh by the World Bank and the Government of Saudi Arabia. We call for assistance to the Government of Yemen in implementing its economic recovery plan in the areas under its control, which constitute 80 per cent of the total territory of Yemen.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“As the number of child victims climbs, the number of detainees and the forcible disappeared is also on the rise. All the forcibly displaced and detainees are now in the prisons of the coup masters. How many victims, children, detainees and forcibly disappeared does the Council, the United Nations, the Secretary- General and the Special Envoy need before they respond to the suffering of our people and condemn the Houthi killers? How many messages have I sent to the Secretary-General concerning the detainees without a single response? It is as if international humanitarian law has nothing to do with what is being perpetrated by that criminal gang.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“Taiz continues to experience horrors after two years of an appalling war and the collective punishment of its children and adults, who have rejected the coup d'etat. The blockade imposed under the coup d'etat has led to further displacement and the daily killing of children, women and the elderly, as well as the indiscriminate bombing of hospitals and residential areas that lack all water, food and medicine. I call on the human conscience of Council members, in the name of the Government of Yemen, to condemn and criminalize the massacres committed by the Houthi militias and Saleh, as well as the blockade imposed on the city of Taiz and its villages. Day after day, the militia set burn and shell the houses of citizens, forcefully displacing them from their villages. We have never yet heard a call for an end to the blockade.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“It led to the death of 50 innocent civilians, most of them women and children, as well as five journalists - which was met by the appalling silence of the international community. This is the picture of six-year-old Eliyas Aklan, who was killed by a Houthi-launched missile in Taiz on 23 May. His innocent tears will chase the criminals until justice prevails for him and all innocent children. Eliyas reminds us of another child, Fareed Al-Tharabi, five-years-old, who was killed in another Houthi massacre by a missile launched in Taiz on 13 October 2015. He died crying and pleading with his doctors not to bury him. His story was referred to by the former Permanent Representative of the United States, Ms. Samantha Power.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“I would also like to express my gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who has order the King Salman Center for Humanitarian Aid and Relief to make every effort to prevent the spread of cholera, especially since most of the areas where cholera is spread are under the control of the coup d'etat forces. They have also provided facilities and medications for 50,000 people and signed an $8 million with the World Health Organization to address the cholera outbreak. It is regrettable and painful that the arrival of the Special Envoy to Sana'a coincided with massacres by the Houthi militias in Taiz, which has been under blockade for two years.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“In that connection, I would like to refer to the excellent outcome of the Geneva Conference of 25 April - under the sponsorship of the Secretary- General and the Governments of Switzerland and Sweden - aimed at supporting the humanitarian response plan in Yemen for 2017. It raised approximately $1.1 million. In that regard, we call upon all countries that pledged funds to follow through so that we can use the money to combat the cholera and famine in Yemen. So far, only 65 per cent of the pledges have been honoured. The Government of Yemen, under the leadership of the President, welcomes the Arab and international efforts to combat cholera.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“That solution would bring genuine peace, instead of temporary peace that would lead to further wars for coup leaders, terrorists and gangs to violate our national sovereignty. The catastrophic humanitarian situation that my country has been enduring since the rogue coup d'etat of the Houthi militias and the followers of the former President requires further attention from the international community. Those gangs, which have forcefully taken power, have brought increased humanitarian suffering and the spread of famine and disease - most recently cholera - which have led to the death of many people.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“They have actually put an end to the dream of Yemenis with the result of the national dialogue conference to establish a democratic federal State. This war has never been the choice of the Yemeni Government, led by President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour. It was imposed upon us after all other peaceful options were exhausted and after we had reached many compromises so as to not endure an indiscriminate war, where the first and last loser would be the great Yemeni people. Nevertheless, we extend a peaceful hand for a just and comprehensive solution based on the agreed instruments. Locally, regionally and internationally, those are the Gulf Cooperation Council initiative and its implementation mechanism and the resolutions of the Security Council - the latest of which is resolution 2216 (2015).”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source
“Today, Yemen is a terrifying scene out of Dante's Divine Comedy, where death prevails in all of its colours and human suffering is the major headline. That is all due to the coup leaders holding on to stolen power and stealing the scarce resources of the Yemeni people. The head of that criminal coup d'etat, Abdul- Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, is sitting in his cave, alleging the holy right to rule while the international community combating terrorism is facing another pretender, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has established the State of death and terrorism and wrongfully called it the Islamic State. The terrorism of the Houthi movement, Da'esh, or Al-Qaida, which is controlled by hidden hands in the Iranian intelligence, is turning our lives into anightmare.”
2017-05-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7954 (2017) · source