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Wednesday 13 May 2015 - 15:43 Makkah mean time-24-7-1436
New York (IINA) – The UN Security Council welcomed the five-day humanitarian truce for Yemen that began late Tuesday and urged all sides to respect it.
In a statement, the 15-member council expressed grave concern for the "severe humanitarian consequences" of the months-long violence in Yemen.
"All parties will need to transparently and reliably suspend military operations" for the humanitarian pause to hold, the council members stressed.
The Saudi-initiated truce is intended to allow for desperately-needed deliveries of humanitarian aid into Yemen.
The humanitarian ceasefire went into effect as UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was in Sana’a for talks on holding a peace conference with all parties.
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