IRCS Chief Calls on Int’l Organizations to Help Provide Aid to Yemen
Local Editor
The Head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Amir-Mohsen Ziaee, called for more efficient measures from the international community and Federation of International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to provide emergency supplies to Yemen, as he said in a meeting on Tuesday.
Ziaee was speaking in a meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva to coordinate international humanitarian aid to Yemen.
Participants in this meeting underlined that the Yemeni crisis is very complicated from different national, regional and international dimensions and that providing aid to the war-stricken Yemeni people requires close cooperation of all the humanitarian organizations.
They also noted that sending humanitarian supplies to other countries by any Red Cross or Red Crescent Society should follow a formal demand by the Red Cross or Red Crescent Society of the host country.
The US-led Saudi aggression has killed thousands of Yemeni people and displaced hundreds of thousands since March.
Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
