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Germany on Wednesday expressed its willingness to support the United Nations' peace efforts in Yemen.
“We do everything we can to support @ UN, to get involved in a peace process,” German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas wrote in a post on Twitter.
Earlier in the day, Berlin hosted an international conference attended by “key players, including UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths and Resident Coordinator of the UN in Yemen Lise Grande.
On December 13, peace talks between the Houthi revolutionaries and resigned Yemeni regime were held in the Swedish capital, where both warring parties reached a ceasefire agreement in vacating the strategic Yemeni port city of Hodeida.
The armed conflict in Yemen that has been continuing for four-and-half years, has brought more than 22 million people that accounts to over three-quarters of the entire country's population, in dire need of humanitarian assistance or protection, of whom over eight million are severely food insecure and at risk of starvation, the UN has estimated.
The Saudi-led military aggression against Yemen in early 2015 has also wrecked the country's medical, water and sanitation systems, resulting in the outbreak of cholera and other deadly diseases. Thousands of civilians, especially children, have lost their lives either in airstrikes or fighting hunger.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
