Speeches and Statements

Thank you Mr. President. Mr. President, Members of the Council, thank you for the opportunity to brief you again on the situation in Yemen and on the United Nations’ relentless efforts to support a peaceful resolution of this…

Good evening, everyone, I’m glad to be speaking to you today here from New York. I just briefed the Council and you would have heard me updating on the recent worrying wave of military escalation. It’s needless to say a…

Thank you Mr. President, Mr. President, the continued military escalation of the conflict in Yemen has escaped no-one. I am here today to discuss these worrying developments and to share with you my efforts and to try and…

Amman/Sana’a, 25 January 2021– We are alarmed by the escalating spiral of violence in Yemen that continues to harm civilians and is spilling over its borders. January will almost certainly be a record-shattering month for…

The Secretary-General condemns the airstrikes launched earlier today by the Saudi-led Coalition against a detention center in Saada city. Initial reports indicate at least 60 deaths and over 100 injured among the inmates…

Dear correspondents, In response to questions about Yemen, we can say the following: The Secretary-General expresses his concern and deplores the recent Saudi-led Coalition’s airstrikes in Sana’a that resulted in numerous…

The Secretary-General condemns today’s attacks on Abu Dhabi’s International Airport and the nearby industrial Musaffah area, which reportedly caused several civilian casualties and have been claimed by the Houthis. Attacks on…

Thank you, Madame President. Let me first welcome the newly elected members to this Council and I will look forward to close cooperation with them as with all Members of the Council. Madame President, 2022 is starting on a…

The world welcomes 2022 with our hopes for the future being tested. By deepening poverty and worsening inequality. By an unequal distribution of COVID vaccines. By climate commitments that fall short. And by ongoing conflict…

The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, denounced the recent major military escalation in Yemen and called on the warring parties to immediately de-escalate. Mr. Grundberg stressed that this…

Thank you Mr. President. Mr. President, as I recently expressed in my call for restraint, I am deeply alarmed by the ongoing military escalation and continued violence in Yemen. Since I last addressed this Council, the…

Thank you very much Governor. Obviously, I am very honoured to be with you here today in Taiz. I just had a very constructive meeting with the Governor and with other representatives of political parties here in Taiz. We…