17 Feb 2016 - Mr. President,
Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Security Council once again on the latest developments in Yemen.
It has been two months since the parties met in Switzerland, for the first face to face talks of the peace process. Those talks produced agreements on...
15 Dec 2015 - New York, 15 December 2015- The Secretary-General welcomes the start of the Yemen peace talks today in Switzerland under the facilitation of his Special Envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. After months of civil war and thousands of lives lost, it is clear that a negotiated and...
15 Dec 2015 - Switzerland, 15 December 2015- UN-sponsored consultations aimed at finding a durable settlement to the Yemen crisis started today in Switzerland. These consultations seek to establish a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire, secure improvements to the humanitarian situation and...
15 Dec 2015 - Peace be upon you all. On behalf of the Secretary-General, please allow me to thank you for coming.
I would like to welcome you to Switzerland and I hope that this venue will help us to address the difficult task awaiting us. I would also like to thank the Swiss Government for...
12 Nov 2015 - The Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, voices sadness at the death of Dr. Abdel Karim Al-Iryani who died today in a hospital in Frankfurt.
Dr. Al-Iryani served previously as Yemen’s Prime Minister and had played a key role in Yemen’s...
31 Oct 2015 -
Mr. President,
Thank you for this opportunity to update the Council on the latest developments in Yemen and challenges facing efforts to ensure the country’s return to peace and stability.
What Yemen is witnessing today contravenes the commitments made by the parties to the...
27 Oct 2015 - The Secretary-General condemns the airstrikes by the Saudi-led Coalition that hit the Hayadeen Medical Hospital, run by Médecins Sans Frontières with support from UNICEF and the World Health Organization in Sa’dah governorate. The strikes reportedly resulted in injuries to...
15 Oct 2015 - Mr. President.
Thank you for this opportunity to brief the Council on the latest developments in Yemen.
Yemen is ablaze and the Yemeni population is in a catastrophic situation. The country is bleeding and its cities collapsing. Yemen’s citizens are deprived of the most basic...
01 Jul 2015 - New York
The Secretary-General repeats his call for an immediate end to the fighting in Yemen to help stem the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the country.
He calls on the parties to agree, at the very minimum, on an immediate pause in hostilities until the end of the...
18 Jun 2015 - Geneva
The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, strongly condemns the series of terrorist attacks on 17 June in Sana’a, including the bombing of three mosques, which have resulted in scores of deaths and casualties. He extends his deepest...
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