UK: Long Term Political Settlement Vital For Peace In Yemen

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Britain stressed that the urgency of making progress in Yemen can’t be underestimated. 

“Longer term move towards a political settlement, towards a more representative settlement in Yemen … is absolutely vital for the peace, security and stability of the country and the health and well-being of the Yemeni people,” Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, said at the Security Council briefing on Yemen Tuesday.

The two Yemeni sides reached agreement at U.N.-brokered talks Sunday on the first phase of a mutual pullout agreed to in Sweden in December from the port areas, which was seen as a key step in attempts to end the conflict.

Karen also called on all the parties “to do their utmost to ensure that the commission personnel can get in and do their work.”

Source: Yemenwatch.net