Press releases

  • Meeting on the Economic Provisions of the Hudayda Agreement Concludes
    16 May 2019 - The Yemeni parties met from 14 to 16 May to discuss the implementation of the economic provisions of the Hudayda Agreement in Amman. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Yemen (OSESGY) with the presence of representatives of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Development Programme.

  • UN Photo/Manuel Elia

    Briefing of Martin Griffiths, Un Special Envoy for Yemen, to the Security Council
    15 May 2019 - Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President for giving me the opportunity to brief this Council. Today, of course, I am very pleased to report to the Council on progress in the implementation of the Hudaydah agreement.

  • UN teams continue monitoring redeployments of military forces from Hudaydah ports. Photo credit: UNMHA.

    Yemeni Parties Meet in Amman on Economic Provisions of the Hudayda Agreement
    13 May 2019 - The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen will meet the Yemeni parties in Amman on Tuesday 14 May, to discuss implementation of the economic provisions of the Hudayda Agreement reached in Sweden in December 2018.
  • Briefing of Martin Griffiths, UN Special Envoy for Yemen to the Security Council
    15 Apr 2019 - Thank you very much Mr. President, And thank you for giving me this opportunity to brief the Council.  It is almost exactly a year since I first had such a chance. And I said then, back in April of last year, that a political solution was available to resolve the conflict in Yemen.  But I added that at any time war can take the chance of peace off the table. And I must say both these propositions hold as true today as they did a year ago.
  • Statement attributed to the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen Martin Griffiths
    09 Apr 2019 - Amman, 09 April 2019 - I am deeply saddened to hear of the tragic deaths of civilians, the majority of whom were young female students attending school, in Saewan area in Sana’a, on 7 April.

  • UN Women for OSESGY

    Griffiths to Yemeni Women Conference: “We have to walk an uphill”
    27 Mar 2019 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, took part this morning in the first day of the Yemeni Women Conference “Mediators for Peace”, organized by UN Women in Amman.

  • Giles Clarke - UN OCHA

    Statement by the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, on the implementation of the Hudayda Agreement
    19 Mar 2019 - Following constructive discussions with both parties, there is significant progress towards an agreement to implement phase one of the redeployments of the Hudayda agreement. Operational details will be presented to the parties in the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) for endorsement shortly.

  • @Al-Arabiya for OSESGY

    Griffiths to Al-Arabiya: "phase one of redeployments in Hudayda should start immediately."
    23 Feb 2019 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, stressed the importance for the parties in Yemen to immediately start implementing phase one of the redeployments in Hudayda. In an interview with Al-Arabiya’s Diplomatic Avenue, he mentioned that “the two parties sat down for two days with general Michael Lollesgaard and they agreed on these redeployments. We are still looking for that process to start.

  • UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe

    Briefing of the Special Envoy for Yemen to the UN Security Council
    19 Feb 2019 - Mr. President, Thank you very much, thank you for the opportunity provided to me to brief this Council.

  • @ UNICEF - A woman and children wait as UNICEF-supported emergency humanitarian supplies are distributed in Hudaydah, Yemen, in June 2018.

    Joint statement on the situation in Yemen
    11 Feb 2019 - SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR YEMEN MARTIN GRIFFITHS and UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR MARK LOWCOCK 11 February 2019 - The urgency of United Nations access to the Red Sea Mills in Hodeida is growing by the day.

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