President al-Alimi receives UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Aden

  Aden

His Excellency President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi, President of the Presidential Leadership Council, received today, Tuesday, in Aden the UN Resident Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen David Gressly.

President Al-Alimi ‎‏was comprehensively briefed by Mr. Gressly on the UN's response to the increasingly growing humanitarian needs and the UN's plans to increase its actions in the government-held governorates.

The President praised the humanitarian interventions of the UN, mainly the emergency aids of food and health which have been very helpful and proved live-saving for millions, moreover the UN's successful efforts to handle Safer Tanker that helped to avert an unbearable ‏impending environmental disaster in the Red Sea.

The President of the Presidential Leadership Council expressed his concerns about reducing the relief aids as that will further exacerbate the already dire humanitarian crisis which created by Iran-backed Houthi militias' coup.

His Excellency has affirmed the keenness of the Presidential Leadership Council and the government to support the UN's efforts and ease its staff movement and easily access to the people in need all over Yemen to alleviate the humanitarian suffering.

The President stressed that it is very necessary to review some of the UN's programs in the Houthi militias-controlled regions in order to ensure the delivery of the humanitarian aids to the people in need.He also noted that it is very important for the UN to reconsider the allocated support for the militias in the field of removing the landmines. He suggested that it will be much better to get the militias to stop planting more landmines and marine mines which both are internationally prohibited. 

The meeting was attended by Director of the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, Dr. Yahya Al-Shuaibi.