Middle East: UN monitors team led by a Dutch retired Major General Patrick Cammaert has arrived in southern Yemeni city of Aden to monitor a ceasefire that went into force in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Iran Press reported.
Cammaert and his team are due to travel later to Sanaa, and then proceed by road to Hudaydah.
Patrick Cammaert, arrived in Aden on Saturday as part of a United Nations ceasefire monitoring team
On Friday 21 Nov 2018, the first UN resolution on Yemen - resolution 2451 - was adopted in the Security Council to support the truce between Houthi Ansarullah movement and the armed militia loyal to former fugitive Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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Based on United Nation Security council vote, monitors also would observe the pullout of rival forces from the flashpoint area.
The warring parties in Yemen reached the ceasefire agreement on the Red Sea Houthi-held port of Hudaydah on December 13.
UNSC Resolution 2451 supports an agreement reached in the Yemeni peace talks in Stockholm, Sweden, to establish a truce in Hudaydah as a vital Yemeni port through which most food, medicine, and other essential items are imported into the country.
The resolution mainly focuses on sending essential commodities to the Yemenis, supporting the Stockholm agreement, giving full authority to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to implement and monitor the ceasefire arrangement.
Meanwhile despite the arrival of UN monitors in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has actually increased its attacks on the port of Hudaydah, and surrounding areas.
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The Saudi-led coalition has violated the truce agreement 223 times since the beginning of the ceasefire, Yemeni TV Channel 'Al-Masirah' quoted spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree as saying on Saturday night.
Saudis have so far targeted different areas in Hudaydah with 51 missiles and 155 artillery shells. Also Saudi jet fighters have bombarded Sanaa, Saada, Marib, Al Jawf and Taiz 42 times, Brigadier General Saree announced.
Leading a coalition of its allies, Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall fugitive former president, Abd al-Rabo Mansour Hadi, who had resigned amid popular discontent and fled to Riyadh.
The imposed war initially consisted of an aerial campaign, but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground mercenaries to Yemen. The aggression is estimated to have cost the lives of 56,000 Yemenis.
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Some 16,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.
The assaults of the Saudi-led coalition forces have failed to stop the Yemenis from resisting the aggression. 205/103
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