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Yemen "has no time to waste” said the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths in his briefing to the Security Council on Thursday. Griffiths also reported that he is “particularly alarmed by the continued attacks by Ansar Allah on civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.” UNIFEED

Iranian ambassador to the UN Majid Ravanchi said his country has done “much more than its fair share to preserve the nuclear deal” and stressed that Iran “alone cannot, shall not and will not take all of the burdens anymore to preserve the JCPOA.” UNIFEED

Calling once more for an international criminal probe into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard told members of the global community - the United Nations included – that they should do more to protect human rights defenders and dissidents. UNTV CH

A UN spokesperson said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the killing of Jamal Khashoggi was a “horrendous crime,” but stressed that the UN chief “does not have the power or the authority to launch criminal investigations without a mandate from a competent intergovernmental body.” UNIFEED

UN chief António Guterres noted “with deep concern this morning’s security incidents in the Strait of Hormuz” adding that “if there is something the world cannot afford, it is a major confrontation in the Gulf region.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General “is following with growing concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in the Gulf region” and also “condemns the recent attacks on commercial vessels of the coast of United Arab Emirates,” the UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Wednesday. UNIFEED

A UN spokesperson said UN human rights chief Michel Bachelet “strongly condemned the beheading of 37 men, in spite of repeated appeals by the UN human rights system about the lack of due process and fair trail guarantees, allegations that confessions were obtained through torture, and the age of some of those executed.” UNIFEED

Central bank governors and finance ministers of the G20 nations met in Washington on Friday at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. IMF

In its 2018 report on the death penalty, Amnesty International found that global executions fell by 31 percent marking the lowest recorded number in a decade. UNIFEED

In her annual report to the Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said she is concerned by “the apparently arbitrary arrest and detention, and alleged ill-treatment or torture, of several women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia.” UNTV CH