The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously approved on Wednesday a resolution establishing a UN mission of up to 75 observers in Yemen's port city of Al Hudaydah for the period of six months to support the warring parties in implementing a ceasefire and redeployment of their forces
UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously approved on Wednesday a resolution establishing a UN mission of up to 75 observers in Yemen's port city of Al Hudaydah for the period of six months to support the warring parties in implementing a ceasefire and redeployment of their forces."The Security Council decides to establish a Special Political Mission, the United Nations Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA), to support the implementation of the Agreement on the city of Hodeidah and Ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Issa ... for initial period of six months from the date of the adoption of this resolution," the text of the resolution said.
In December, during UN-sponsored consultations in Sweden, Yemen's warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in Al Hudaydah and pledged to implement various humanitarian measures, including an exchange of prisoners and establishment of humanitarian corridors.
Yemen has been gripped by a civil war between President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's government and the Shiite Houthi movement, officially known as the Ansar Allah movement, since 2015. The government is backed by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes that target areas controlled by the Houthis since March 2015. UN experts have suggested that all the involved parties might have been complicit in war crimes.
