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The head of the United Nations monitoring team in the western city of Hodeida, retired General Patrick Cammaert, arrived on Saturday at Sana’a International Airport.
Cammaert’s return comes after reports that he had submitted his resignation hours before his departure from Sana’a airport last week along with UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths heading for Riyadh to meet with former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Other media sources said the United Nations had accepted Cammaert’s resignation, but he is continuing to work until a replacement is chosen.
On Thursday, diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity said the UN plans to replace Cammaert next month with Danish Major General Michael Anker Lollesgaard, who led a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali in 2015 and 2016.
Lollesgaard - who, like Cammaert, will report to U.N. Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths - will oversee boosting the monitoring mission to up to 75 observers, a move that was authorized by the Security Council earlier this month.
The United Nations mission is tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeida port city reached in January in Sweden.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
