UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the
Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and
independence of humanitarian workers.
The Associated Press has obtained the nine recommendations the panel of experts made in their latest report to the council.
The recommendations came as UN monitors try to strengthen a cease-fire
in the port of Hodeidah, key to the delivery of 70 percent of Yemen’s
imports and humanitarian aid, and arrange a withdrawal of rival forces
from the area agreed to by the government and the Houthis on Dec. 13.
While the agreement in Stockholm was limited, if fully implemented it
could offer a potential breakthrough in Yemen’s four-year civil war.
The experts asked the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions
against Yemen to engage with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s
office, Yemen’s government and donors to “enhance” the UN mission
inspecting vessels heading to ports in Yemen for illegal arms so it can
“identify networks using false documentation to evade inspection.”
They also suggested that Guterres organize a conference with the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank as well as other “key actors
to best manage cash flows and imports of goods,” using the principles of
the UN Global Compact on how companies should conduct business.
And the experts recommended that the secretary-general ask the UN
inspection mission and monitors at the port of Hodeidah “to share
information on potential cases of acts that threaten the peace,
stability and security of Yemen,” including violations of international
human rights and humanitarian law, the UN arms embargo, and obstructions
of humanitarian assistance.
The experts also asked the sanctions committee to consider sending three
letters. One would be to Abu Al-Abbas, a militia commander in the
flashpoint city of Taiz, asking him to transfer artifacts and items from
the Taiz National Museum in his custody to Yemen’s government.
A second would be to alert the International Maritime Organization to
“the risks posed by anti-ship cruise missiles and water-borne improvised
explosive devices in the Red Sea and to encourage it to discuss these
threats with the commercial shipping industry with the aim of developing
suitable precautions and countermeasures.”
The third would be to alert the International Civil Aviation
Organization of the risks posed by drones and munitions to civil
aviation, particularly near busy international airports on the Arabian
Peninsula “and encourage it to discuss these threats with airport
operators and airlines with the aim of developing suitable precautions
and countermeasures.”
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