AMN / LONDON
Britain has urged United Nations Security Council partners to act over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, saying there now appears to be a window for a peace deal.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt agreed with the UN’s Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths that the time was right for the Council to act to bolster the UN-led process.
According to a Foreign Office statement, Mr Hunt said, Britain will use all its influence to push for such an approach. He said, there was a small but real chance that a cessation of hostilities could alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had called for a halt to violence in Yemen to pull the country back from a precipice and build momentum toward talks on ending the war.
According to UNICEF, almost 2 million Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and the lives of 400,000 severely affected children are under threat.