UN / YEMEN HUDAYDAH AGREEMENT

STORY: UN / YEMEN HUDAYDAH AGREEMENT
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DATELINE: 15 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

15 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Michael Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA):
“We are currently in a new military and political landscape in Hudaydah. Following the unilateral withdrawal of the government of the Yemen’s joint forces from large parts of the government in November 2021, which led to a shift of the frontlines to the southern districts of the governors. Pockets of instability remain in these districts. And the Mission has been working to expand its monitoring to gain increased access to such areas of instability.”
4.Wide shot, press briefing room
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Michael Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA):
“In parallel, the Mission has been able to increase its patrols to the three ports of Hudaydah’s Salif and Ras Issa. This sees those conducting mobile monitoring activities across the areas of interest, with our personnel engaging with Yemeni counterparts at each site, which also while also working to visit any incident sites of note. This monitoring of the ports is to ensure that their civilian nature is maintained, facilitating the continued entry of commercial and humanitarian goods which remains a core objective of the Mission’s work.
6.Wide shot, press briefing room
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Michael Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA):
“The mission despairing offer to mobilize support to respond to this tragic problem within our immediate environment. As the Mission’s mandate renewal approaches next month in July, the Mission's overarching priority remains to ensure that its effective presence increases stability and new data protects the port's reduces suffering and betters the life of the population it serves, who have suffered from instability, conflict, and displacement, as you all know, for far too long.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Michael Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA):
“The ports of Hudaydah serve as a lifeline for Yemen. They supply up to 70 percent of the country's population with humanitarian aid and essential food supplies. There is no viable substitute for data supports, both in terms of location and infrastructure, and the governance remains an indispensable pathway to Yemen social economic recovery.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room

STORYLINE:

The Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), Major General Michael Beary, said, “we are currently in a new military and political landscape in Hudaydah,” adding that “pockets of instability remain in the southern districts of the governors, and the Mission has been working to expand its monitoring to gain increased access to such areas of instability.”

Speaking to reporters in New York today (15 Jun), Beary said, “In parallel, the Mission has been able to increase its patrols to the three ports of Hudaydah’s Salif and Ras Issa. This sees those conducting mobile monitoring activities across the areas of interest, with our personnel engaging with Yemeni counterparts at each site, which also while also working to visit any incident sites of note.”

The head of the UN Mission continued, “this monitoring of the ports is to ensure that their civilian nature is maintained, facilitating the continued entry of commercial and humanitarian goods which remains a core objective of the Mission’s work.”

Beary also said, “as the Mission’s mandate renewal approaches next month in July, the Mission's overarching priority remains to ensure that its effective presence increases stability and new data protects the port's reduces suffering and betters the life of the population it serves, who have suffered from instability, conflict, and displacement, as you all know, for far too long.”

The head of the UN Mission reiterated, “the ports of Hudaydah serve as a lifeline for Yemen. They supply up to 70 percent of the country's population with humanitarian aid and essential food supplies.”

He said, “there is no viable substitute for data supports, both in terms of location and infrastructure, and the governance remains an indispensable pathway to Yemen social economic recovery.”