{"id":12235,"date":"2017-12-01T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2017-12-01T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:29:45","slug":"un-wants-saudi-led-siege-on-yemen-totally-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/un-wants-saudi-led-siege-on-yemen-totally-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"UN wants Saudi-led siege on Yemen totally lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The chief of the United Nations&#8217;\u00a0humanitarian affairs office has stressed that the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen has to be totally lifted.<\/p>\n<p>UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said on Friday that the Saudi-led military coalition waging war on Yemen had to completely lift the blockade of Yemen, where nearly eight million people are \u201cright on the brink of famine.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat blockade has been partially wound down but not fully wound down. It needs to be fully wound down if we are to avoid an atrocious humanitarian tragedy involving the loss of millions of lives, the like of which the world has not seen for many decades,\u201d Lowcock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely essential that people uphold their international obligations. Wars have rules and they need to be complied with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia and its allies have been ceaselessly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a former regime allied to Riyadh. The Saudi-led coalition has also maintained an embargo on the already-impoverished country since then.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh tightened that embargo after a retaliatory missile attack from Yemen early in November. The Saudi regime has claimed that it has partially loosened that embargo in the face of massive international outcry.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, European Parliament members overwhelmingly voted for a resolution calling on the European Union (EU) to impose an arms embargo on the Saudi regime over the atrocities against Yemen.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/12\/01\/544083\/EU-MEPs-arms-embargo-Saudi-Arabia-Yemen-Mogherini\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20171201\/029a514e-6b24-4b30-a526-9590b14ebc05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-EU parliament urges arms embargo on Saudi Arabia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The non-binding resolution, adopted in a nearly unanimous 539-13 vote on Thursday, condemned attacks against Yemeni civilians as \u201cwar crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The non-binding resolution, which was adopted in a nearly unanimous 539-13 vote, condemned attacks against Yemeni civilians as \u201cwar crimes,\u201d and slammed EU members for authorizing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia in breach of EU laws on arms export control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of the United Nations&#8217;\u00a0humanitarian affairs office has stressed that the Saudi-led blockade of Yemen has to be totally lifted. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said on Friday that the Saudi-led military coalition waging war on Yemen had to completely lift the blockade of Yemen, where nearly eight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12238,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions\/12238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}