: Yemen: UN envoy underscores need to ‘end the conflict, not merely manage it’ #IndiaNEWS #International The Security Council has a joint responsibility to help Yemen take the “necessary and decisive

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Yemen: UN envoy underscores need to ‘end the conflict, not merely manage it’ #IndiaNEWS #International
The Security Council has a joint responsibility to help Yemen take the “necessary and decisive steps towards peace,??? the country’s UN Special Envoy told the ambassadors on Monday.

While continuing to count on international support to implement, extend, and expand the current truce, Hans Grundberg underscored the “need to end the conflict, not merely manage it???.
‘Build a lasting peace’
The UN envoy lauded the parties for extending the truce until 2 October, continuing “the longest pause in fighting since the war began??? over seven years ago.

UN Envoy for #Yemen briefed the #UNSC today on the current status of the extended #truce in Yemen, as well as the proposed elements of an expanded one, outlining the tangible impact of truce implementation on Yemeni men & women. Read his full statement: t. co/1KndHvmpaI
— @OSE_Yemen (@OSE_Yemen) August 15, 2022

In addition to humanitarian and economic measures, the agreement provides two months for negotiations to improve Yemeni lives and find further steps to end the conflict.
“We all need to remind ourselves that failure to reach an agreement to extend the truce would lead to renewed cycles of escalation and violence, with predictable and devastating consequences for Yemen’s population,??? he said, calling on the parties to “build a lasting peace???.
The first UN-brokered truce came into effect on 2 April and has been extended on a bi-monthly ever since.
Truce holds, militarily
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