{"id":972,"date":"2017-10-07T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/saudi-arabia-rejects-un-blacklisting-over-children-deaths-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2017-10-07T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:47:19","slug":"saudi-arabia-rejects-un-blacklisting-over-children-deaths-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/saudi-arabia-rejects-un-blacklisting-over-children-deaths-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia rejects UN blacklisting over children deaths in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Saudi Arabia on Friday rejected a United Nations report blaming a Saudi-led military coalition for killing or injuring 683 children in Yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals as \u2018inaccurate and misleading\u2019.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"84\">\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe exercise the maximum degree of care and precaution to avoid civilian harm,\u201d Saudi UN Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi told reporters at the United Nations, france24.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a report submitted to the UN Security Council on Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blacklisted the Saudi-led coalition for its 2016 action even as he said that it had taken action to improve child protection.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the coalition reaffirm that it is taking important measures to protect civilians during all military operations to end the suffering of the Yemeni people and minimize the humanitarian cost,\u201d Mouallimi said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe reject the inaccurate and misleading information and figures contained in the report and we express our strong reservation with respect to this information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe coalition had been briefly added to the UN blacklist last year and removed by then-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pending review. At the time, Ban accused Saudi Arabia of exerting \u2018unacceptable\u2019 undue pressure after sources told REUTERS that Riyadh threatened to cut some UN funding. Saudi Arabia denied this.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an effort to dampen controversy surrounding the report, the blacklist this year is split into two categories. One lists parties that have put in place measures to protect children, which includes the Saudi-led military coalition, and the other includes parties that have not.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe report does not subject those listed to UN action but rather shames parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to implement measures to protect children.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYemen has been devastated by more than two years of civil war in which President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi\u2019s government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, is fighting to drive the Houthis out of cities they seized in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore than 10,000 people have been killed and the conflict has ruined the economy and pushed millions to the brink of famine.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMouallimi blamed the Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen\u2019s ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh for putting civilians at risk, including using children as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe UN blacklist also named the Houthi rebel group, Yemen government forces, pro-government militia and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for violations against children in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Saudi Arabia on Friday rejected a United Nations report blaming a Saudi-led military coalition for killing or injuring 683 children in Yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals as \u2018inaccurate and misleading\u2019. \u201cWe exercise the maximum degree of care and precaution to avoid civilian harm,\u201d Saudi UN Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi told reporters at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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