Press releases

  • 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.
  • The opening of the committee on implementing the prisoner exchange agreement in Amman, 5 February. OSESGY/Hanan Elbadawi
    The Supervisory Committee on the Implementation of the Prisoner Exchange Agreement Continues its Work
    08 Feb 2019 - The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the Prisoner Exchange Agreement, comprised of representatives of the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah, and co-chaired by the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen (OSESGY) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), held its second meeting in Amman, Jordan, on 5 to 8 February 2019.

  • Representatives of the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah, with members of OSESGY and ICRC teams, after exchanging the lists of prisoners during the Sweden Consultations.
    Claudio Bresciani, UN pool/December 2018.

    The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement reconvenes in Amman on 5 February
    04 Feb 2019 - The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement is scheduled to reconvene in Amman tomorrow, 5 February. The Committee includes representatives of the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah, and is co-chaired by the Office of the Special Envoy and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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