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Iran urges UN General Assembly to issue condemnatory resolution on Lt. Gen. Soleimani assassination
Jan 02, 2022 02:52Iran has called on the United Nations General Assembly to issue a resolution condemning the US assassination of the country’s top anti-terror Commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani to safeguard international peace and uphold human rights.
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Yemen calls on UN Security Council to hold Saudi Arabia, its arms suppliers to account for devastating war
Dec 30, 2021 14:07Yemeni Foreign Minister in the National Salvation Government Hisham Sharaf Abdullah has called upon the UN Security Council to hold Saudi Arabia and its arms suppliers to account in accordance with the international law over their war crimes in the crisis-stricken Arab country.
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‘Threat to civilian lives rising’: UN’s Yemen envoy decries Saudi escalation
Dec 28, 2021 15:23The United Nations special envoy for Yemen has strongly condemned Saudi Arabia’s military escalation against various targets across the impoverished country, including the capital Sana’a.
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Yemen announce temporary resumption of UN flights into Sana’a days after Saudi attack
Dec 28, 2021 09:18Yemen’s civil aviation authority has announced a temporary resumption of aid flights by the United Nations to Sana’a International Airport, a week after Saudi aerial assaults put the facility out of operation.
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World Food Program cuts food aid to Yemen
Dec 23, 2021 15:23As millions of Yemenis face the threat of drowning into a famine due to the ongoing Saudi-led war on the country, the World Food Program says it will reduce its food rations to eight million people in Yemen starting next month due to a lack of funding.
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Despite UN clearance, Saudi coalition seizes another ship carrying tons of fuel off Yemen
Dec 23, 2021 05:33The Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen has seized another ship carrying thousands of tons of fuel although it had received United Nations clearance.
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UN cuts food aid to Yemen due to lack of funds
Dec 22, 2021 09:43The food-assistance branch of the United Nations has announced that it will reduce food rations for millions of Yemeni people from next month due to funding shortage, as a protracted Saudi-led bombing campaign pushes more people into hunger in the impoverished country.
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UN plans to pay $6 million to Taliban for security of staff, offices: Report
Dec 22, 2021 05:25The United Nations (UN) is proposing to pay nearly $6 million to the Taliban government no sooner than next year for the protection of the UN staff and facilities in Kabul, a report says.
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Stalemate in Syria proves military solution still ‘an illusion’, says UN envoy
Dec 21, 2021 07:55United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has brushed aside the so-called military solution to the decade-long conflict in Syria as “an illusion,” stating that the warring parties are locked in a “strategic stalemate” on the ground for the past 21 months.
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Security in Afghanistan only possible through inclusive govt. representing all ethnicities: FM
Dec 19, 2021 11:56Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says establishment of sustainable security and stability in the war-torn Afghanistan is only possible through the formation of an inclusive government, which would represent all ethnic groups and religions in the country.