UN calls for lifting of blockade on Yemen

Ibb News 25 Safar 1439 H Al-Wafek 14-11-2017 The United Nations renewed its demand Monday to lift the blockade imposed by a week ago coalition of the Saudi aggression on Yemen

“Humanitarian organizations need full access to all ports and airports,” said spokesman Stefan Dujarric. He pointed out that it is not only access to some ports, because it then requires passage through lines of confrontation to deliver humanitarian assistance

“There are still 11 days before rice stocks run out,” “97 days (before the entry into force) of wheat stocks,” “within 20 days there will be no diesel in the north and within 10 days,” he said, Fuel “in this area

He pointed out that prices have risen significantly.

“All the population in Yemen depends on food, fuel and medicine imports,” he said, adding that “more than 17 million Yemenis, or more than two-thirds of the population, live under undernourishment”

For its part, Saudi Arabia, through its ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah al-Maalami, confirmed at a press conference on Monday that all ports and airports will be reopened “when we will be satisfied with the strengthening of control procedures”

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