UN says it is working to reduce the funding gap to support relief work in Yemen

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Yemen, Julien Harneis, said that the most important programs and projects currently being worked on, and the efforts being made, lie in reducing the size of the funding gap to support relief and humanitarian work in Yemen.

During his meeting in the interim capital, Aden, today, Thursday, with Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, Julian renewed his keenness to enhance coordination with the Yemeni government in determining needs according to urgent priorities, according to the Saba Agency.

According to the agency, the Prime Minister stressed the need to take into account the humanitarian response plan in Yemen, which is being prepared by the United Nations for the year 2025, the priority needs and the sustainable nature.

He also stressed the need to coordinate with ministries and government agencies to identify them, which would support the government's efforts to alleviate the existing human suffering and achieve economic stability.

He reiterated the need to maximize the benefit from available international funding to support the Yemeni people, and to re-update priorities in line with emerging needs.

He expressed his aspiration for the United Nations to support the national plan to be prepared to deal with the issue of displaced persons, returnees from displacement, and those affected by it, according to the principle of permanent solutions, within a comprehensive vision for managing the humanitarian relief file in general.

The meeting reviewed the humanitarian response programmes led by the United Nations and its affiliated organisations and agencies in Yemen, and the mechanisms to overcome the decline in international support on which millions of people depend to survive, and to solve the problems and needs of the displaced.

The meeting also addressed the ongoing violations by the terrorist Houthi militia against relief workers and employees, and the ongoing plans to move the organizations’ headquarters to Aden.

The violations committed against UN and international employees by the Houthi militia were also recalled, as well as its new procedures for transferring abductees to illegal trials.

The meeting stressed the need for the United Nations organizations and agencies and the international community to take firm measures and not to be lenient in this regard, and to pressure the militia to release them immediately without any conditions.