This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.
Wednesday 03 Jun 2015 - 11:44 Makkah mean time-16-8-1436
UN Security Council (UN/File Photo)
New York (IINA) – The UN Security Council voiced deep concern over the “grave situation” in Yemen and urged the country's stakeholders to engage as soon as possible in UN-brokered inclusive political consultations.
In a statement released Tuesday, the 15-member Council reaffirmed its call on Yemeni parties to attend the talks and engage “without preconditions and in good faith,” including by resolving their differences through dialogue and consultations, rejecting acts of violence to achieve political goals, and refraining from provocation and all unilateral actions to undermine the political transition.
Expressing deep disappointment that the UN-backed consultations, previously scheduled to take place in Geneva on May 28, did not take place, the Council also emphasized that the inclusive dialogue must be a Yemeni-led process and urged all parties “to resume and accelerate” them with the intention of brokering a “consensus-based political solution.”
The statement noted that the Council members reiterated their full support for the efforts of the UN and its special envoy to Yemen, and called on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “intensify” his good offices role in order to enable a resumption of “a peaceful, inclusive, orderly and Yemeni-led political transition”,
Also, the Council endorsed the Secretary-General's call for “a further humanitarian pause” in order to allow assistance “to reach the Yemeni people urgently” and called upon all sides to comply with international humanitarian law.
AB/IINA
|
No comments:
Post a Comment