UNSC holds its 2024 last session on Yemen

The UN Security Council is holding its last session on Yemen in 2024 today, Wednesday, amid fears of the return of the specter of war following the suspension of work on the road map due to Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf, and in light of the continued state of instability and increasing tensions in the Middle East.

The UN envoy's office said that Hans Grundberg will brief the Security Council on the latest developments in Yemen, at 6:00 pm today.

This is the last Security Council session on Yemen this year, and comes nearly a year after the envoy announced on 23 December 2023 that the Yemeni government and the Houthi group had committed to a set of measures to implement a nationwide ceasefire, improve living conditions in Yemen, and engage in preparations to resume a comprehensive political process under UN auspices.

At that time, the Special Envoy expressed his intention to develop a UN roadmap for a political process between Yemenis that would activate the commitments, but that map did not see the light of day, due to the escalation led by the Houthi militia in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden against cargo ships under the pretext of supporting Gaza, which has been subjected to a war of extermination by the Israeli entity since October 7, 2023.

Earlier this week, the UN envoy expressed pessimism about the possibility of moving forward with a political solution in Yemen, saying that the warring parties and the besieged people in Yemen cannot wait indefinitely for a roadmap for peace before the country slides back into the cycle of war.