Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York has
urged all the warring parties in Yemen to urgently agree on the
extension of ceasefire in order to ensure permanent peace in the
country.
Making this call in a statement obtained by our
correspondent yesterday after the Security Council’s briefing on the
situation in Yemen, the Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations, Prof.
Joy Uche Ogwu, said Nigeria is concerned that the ceasefire extension
had not been agreed, stressing that it would have been the most
effective confidence-building measure.
She called on the warring
parties to make the ceasefire permanent and expressed regret over the
numerous ceasefire violations, saying it was enough to have a ceasefire
and the parties must refrain from violating it.
Ogwu said:
“Nigeria looks forward to the resumption of talks in January and hopes
it would produce an outcome that would end the conflict.”
The
Nigerian official also said the fact that the Yemeni government and the
Houthis had engaged in discussions was encouraging, and welcomed in that
regard the agreement reached in Switzerland on a broad framework that
could provide a basis for ending the conflict in the country.
Also
briefing the Council, Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of the United Kingdom
noted that, had members of the Council been Yemeni, 12 of them would
have needed humanitarian assistance and four would have required
immediate food assistance.
However, there were signs of hope, he
said, as he welcomed the parties’ presence at the negotiating table, and
called for the ceasefire needed to be extended beyond December, just as
he asserted that all sides to the conflict must respect it and fulfill
their obligations under international humanitarian law.
In his own
address, Mr. Mahamat Zene of Chad said he was concerned about the
worsening humanitarian and security situation in Yemen, describing the
price paid in human lives as atrocious. He added that the situation was
further compounded by the destruction of infrastructure and the lack of
social services.
Without a political prospect, the conflict might
pose a risk of regional conflict and provide fertile ground for
terrorists, he warned, adding that the international community and
countries in the region must prioritize the creation of conditions
conducive to dialogue.
Speaking in her national capacity, the US
Ambassador to the UN and Council’s rotational president for December,
Ms. Samantha Power, said that the Council was united in support of Yemen
and the efforts of the Special Envoy who had facilitated the resumption
of peace talks.
She promised that the United States would work
with other Council members to hold all sides to their commitments,
adding that the Council was also united on a vision of what should
happen next: all sides must do more to facilitate access for life-saving
assistance and shipments of basic commercial goods.
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