UN welcomes flights from Sanaa to Cairo but warns humanitarian crisis in Yemen is still dire

NEW YORK, 02 June 2022, (TON): The UN welcomed the resumption of commercial flights from Sanaa airport in Yemen to Egypt.

But Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, warned that the humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country remains dire, as he called on donors to pledge and to convert the pledges into cash.

The first flight to Cairo, under the terms of a UN-brokered two-month truce, took off on Wednesday morning. It was the seventh international flight overall to depart from Sanaa during the truce, which is due to expire on June 2.

Intensive efforts by Hans Grundberg, the secretary-general’s envoy for Yemen, continue as he attempts to persuade all sides to extend it. Dujarric described the preliminary signs from the truce negotiations as positive.

He added “so far a total of 2,495 Yemenis have flown from Sanaa to Amman in Jordan or Cairo. He thanked the Egyptian government for its invaluable support in bringing about this important achievement.”

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