The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to renew for nine months its sanctions against several leaders and top officials of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running the Sana’a government since 2014.
The 15-member body adopted British-drafted Resolution 2675 on Wednesday, allowing sanctions measures of asset freeze and travel ban against certain Yemeni entities and individuals to continue until November 15, 2023.
The UNSC also decided to extend the mandate of the panel of experts monitoring the sanctions until December 15.
The council also voted to extend an arms embargo that has targeted Ansarullah leaders since February 2022, following retaliatory attacks by the Yemeni army and its aerial strikes on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Following the vote, the council met behind closed doors to hear briefings by Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, and Joyce Msuya, the assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, to discuss the situation in the war-torn country.
During the meeting, Grundberg said he was encouraged by intensified regional and international diplomatic activity to end Yemen’s eight-year conflict, and he reportedly followed up on those efforts.
Source: Press TV