This year, the United Kingdom’s Food Security Safety Nets programme will provide $79 million of assistance to help feed at least 864,000 Yemenis, and to support the Government of Yemen’s economic reforms to design a more coherent and coordinated response, said Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Yemen on Wednesday.
Woodward told the Security Council that the UK, strongly condemns the reckless Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, and remains committed to countering the threat posed by the Houthis and restoring freedom of navigation.
She added that the UK calls on the international community to redouble efforts to enforce compliance with the arms embargo, disrupt the illegal weapons flow and support the critical role of the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism, in this regard.
As others have said, the Houthis’ continued Woodward told the Security Council that the UK condemns the arbitrary, and unjustified cruel detention of aid workers and reiterated calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all those detained.
Woodward concluded “Yemenis have suffered for far too long a toxic combination of insecurity and dire humanitarian conditions. Now is the time to redouble our efforts towards an inclusive and sustainable peace”.