An overview of the UNSC meeting on Yemen (Photo: VNA)New York (VNA) – Vietnam has called on allstakeholders to end hostile actions in Yemen, cooperate with the UN SecretaryGeneral’s special envoy to be appointed to the country and consider peaceproposals given by the UN.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on Yemen on July 14,Nguyen Phuong Tra, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, expressedher concern over the military escalation in many areas in Yemen as well asattacks in border areas.
Vietnam condemns attacks targeting civilians, especiallywomen and children, and supports the UNICEF’s call for ensuring necessaryservices for and the rights to go to school of children in Yemen, she said.
She also called on all parties concerned to implement theUNSC’s Resolution 2573, which includes the protection of civil infrastructureworks and the promotion of the implementation of the Stockholm Agreement andRiyadh Agreement with the intermediary role played by the UN.
The same day, the UNSC decided to extend, until July 15next year, the mandate of the United Nations Mission to support the HudaydahAgreement (UNMHA) established on January 16, 2019 following intra-Yemenipeace consultations held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Unanimously adopting Resolution2586 (2021), the council further decided that the mission willoversee the governate-wide ceasefire, redeployment of forces and mine actionoperations, and monitor ceasefire compliance in the Red Sea ports of Hudaydah,Salif and Ras Issa.
UNMHA will also work with the parties to the Agreement — theGovernment of Yemen and Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis — to ensure thatsecurity is provided by local security forces, while facilitating andcoordinating UN support for the Agreement’s implementation.
UNMHA was established by the UN Security Council in January2019, right after the Stockholm Agreement was reached./.
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