{"id":3466,"date":"2022-08-05T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:05:38","slug":"us-condemns-houthis-for-holding-american-un-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/08\/05\/news\/3466\/","title":{"rendered":"US condemns Houthis for holding American, UN staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking held a press briefing following the extension of the truce in Yemen. (File\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : The US envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking on Thursday condemned the Houthi militia for their continued detention of current and former employees of the American government and the UN. \u201cIt\u2019s still extremely unfortunate and we condemn the Houthi detention of 12 of our current and former US and UN staff, they are still being held incommunicado in Yemen, in Sanaa,\u201d he told reporters during a press briefing on the renewal of the country\u2019s truce. \u201cThis detention, we feel, sends an extremely negative signal, we want to see a demonstration of good faith by the Houthis in releasing these individuals unconditionally,\u201d Lenderking added. The US said in November that the Iran-backed Houthis detained a number of Yemeni employees at the US embassy in the capital, which had been closed since 2015. The UN said two of its staff members have been held incommunicado for more than a week by the militia. Lenderking said aside from focusing on the truce and keeping fighting \u201cat an all-time low\u201d for an extended period, the US is also actively involved in supporting the UN to prevent an explosion or leakage from the Safer tanker that has been moored in the Red Sea and risks an environmental disaster. He said they are getting close to their target of $80 million for an operation that would offload the oil from the tanker onto an adjacent vessel. \u201cThat\u2019s not a great deal considering what\u2019s at stake. If there is an explosion of the Safer, we\u2019re looking at $20 billion just for the cleanup, there will be (an) impact on international commerce, there will be destruction of vital maritime habitat, (which) will worsen the humanitarian situation in Yemen by obstructing passage into Yemen ports, it will decimate the Red Sea\u2019s marine ecosystem,\u201d he said. He said Saudi Arabia conveyed a strong commitment to extend the UN-sponsored truce, which was renewed for another two months by the Yemeni parties on Tuesday.
\nHe said both Saudi Arabia and Oman have played a critical role in the truce efforts, adding that they will be working hard to push donors to continue to fill the gaps over the coming months. He said if the truce, which first took hold in April, continues for another two months, it would mean \u201csix months of de-escalation and significant advances on numerous lines of effort,\u201d and provides potential for a \u201cdurable cease-fire and an inclusive, comprehensive political process.\u201d \u201cThe truce offers Yemenis the longest period of calm since the war began, and it offers them real relief, and when you look at the various components of that, civilian casualties are down by about 60 percent since before the start of the truce, approximately 8,000 Yemenis have flown from Sanaa on commercial flights for the first time since 2016, five times more fuel is entering Hodeidah port per month compared to 2021.\u201d Lenderking said over the next two months intensified negotiations need to be held to finalize the truce agreement, and called on all sides to compromise to make progress. He said this includes \u201cinitial Houthi action\u201d to open the main roads to Yemen\u2019s third largest city, Taiz, where \u201cresidents there have been living under siege-like conditions since 2015.\u201d \u201cThe expanded agreement would enable discussions on a comprehensive, nationwide cease-fire that can bring true, true peace and calm to Yemen, and it also paves the way for resuming a Yemeni-Yemeni political process, that … is the only thing that can durably resolve the conflict and reverse the humanitarian crisis,\u201d Lenderking said. News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : The US envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking on Thursday condemned the Houthi militia for their continued detention of current and former employees of the American government and the UN. \u201cIt\u2019s still extremely unfortunate and we condemn the Houthi detention of 12 of our current and former US and UN staff, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}