{"id":2180,"date":"2017-12-11T05:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/un-chief-seeks-trumps-pressure-on-saudis-to-end-terrible-suffering-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T05:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T06:35:39","slug":"un-chief-seeks-trumps-pressure-on-saudis-to-end-terrible-suffering-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/un-chief-seeks-trumps-pressure-on-saudis-to-end-terrible-suffering-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief seeks Trump's pressure on Saudis to end 'terrible suffering' in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UN chief Antonio Guterres has called on the US to pressure Saudi Arabia into ending the \u2018stupid war\u2019 which is causing \u2018terrible suffering to the Yemeni people\u2019 and also harming the kingdom and the UAE.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\t“I believe this is a stupid war,” Guterres told CNN on Sunday in an unusually blunt language, adding that what Yemen needed was \u2018a political solution,\u2019 presstv.com reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t“I think this war is against the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates… and of the people of Yemen,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\n\tUnited Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (AFP)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia and the UAE have been bombing Yemen since 2015 in a campaign which has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and left it grappling with what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe bombings have left more than 12,000 people dead while a cholera outbreak has claimed more than 2,000 people. According to the UN, around seven million Yemenis are also on the verge of starvation.<\/p>\n

\n\t“This war is causing, in my opinion, terrible suffering to the Yemeni people,” the UN chief said, adding, “It’s in the interests of everybody to stop this war.”<\/p>\n

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\n\tA Yemeni man looks at the damage in the aftermath of an airstrike by Saudi Arabia in the capital Sana’a, December 9, 2017. (AFP)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tGuterres said he hoped Riyadh would lift its blockade of Yemen’s ports, which has compounded the country’s misery. “I hope that US President Donald Trump has put a lot of pressure recently…,” he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe United States is an ally of Saudi Arabia in the military campaign against Yemen, providing logistical, and advisory support such as bombing coordinates as well as arms and weapons which have drawn condemnation from rights groups.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe US sealed a massive arms deal with Saudi Arabia in May during Trump’s first visit abroad as president, in a move that solidified Washington’s decades-long alliance with the world’s largest oil exporter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe agreement, worth $350 billion over 10 years and $110 billion that would take effect immediately, was hailed by the White House as a significant expansion of the security relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n

\n\tLockheed Martin was one of the world’s largest military contractors whose technology was part of the US-Saudi accord.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal represented a softening of the US position on the widely criticized Saudi war and support for \u2018endless quagmire\u2019 in Yemen, US news channel CNBC said at the time.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmnesty International, which has recorded human rights violations in Yemen, said the deal “has President Trump throwing gasoline on a house fire and locking the door on his way out.”<\/p>\n

\n\t“There is damning evidence that war crimes have been committed by the Saudi-led coalition and continuing to arm Saudi Arabia fuels serious human rights violations that are causing overwhelming civilian suffering in Yemen,” wrote Eric Ferrero, Amnesty International USA communications director.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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