UN creates joint observation posts in Yemen’s key port city
The U.N. says four joint observation posts manned by
both forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the
country’s Houthi rebels have been established in a key port city.
The head of the U.N. mission to the city of Hodeida,
retired Gen. Abhijit Guha, announced late on Tuesday that the warring sides had
finalized written agreements and posted liaison officers at all four locations
in Hodeida.
The U.N. mission says Guha has visited the posts
this week as part of the implementation of a U.N-brokered cease-fire in
Hodeida, agreed to by both sides last December in Sweden.
Government negotiator Mohammed al-Qadri says another
post will be established soon. He says monitors would be positioned on
Hodeida’s eastern and southern outskirts to help enforce the U.N-brokered
cease-fire.
