[27/02/2023 05:56]
GENEVA - SABA
Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmalik called on the International Community (IC) and donors to maintain the support for the Yemeni peoples as a top priority amid the growing humanitarian crises and economic hardships the world has been experiencing.
In his speech today, Monday, at the opening session of the donors conference in Geneva aimed to finance the UN-Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen 2023, he urged the donors to demonstrate their support for the Yemeni peoples by financial pledges live up to the requirements of the response plan.
He said" Any shortages of the humanitarian support would result in the cessation of crucial programs and projects touch upon hundreds of thousands if not millions of Yemenis".
The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres inaugurated the donors-gather which co-organized by the two governments of Switzerland and Sweden.
The Prime Minister added" This is the seventh conference to finance the humanitarian response plan in Yemen, even though our gathering today is renewing the IC's solidarity with our peoples who are suffering due to a war triggered by militias exercising terrorism and extremism, we have to remind the world that the miserable humanitarian situations have been aggravated so that greater efforts, support and financial pledges are urgently needed to sustain the State's institutions and the government's efforts to revitalize the national economy and bring it back to the right path".
Dr. Ma'een touched upon the structural reforms the government has carried out recently backed by the Presidential Leadership Council to contribute to bolster the role of the State's crucial institutions, economic stability and improve national currency exchange rate, coinciding with reforming the monetary policy, controlling money laundering and countering terrorism fiancés.
The Prime Minister called for transferring the funds allocated to the UN's agencies and international organizations operate in humanitarian actions in Yemen into the Central Bank of Yemen in order to support the government's efforts to achieve the economic stability.
He said " We, the Yemeni government and peoples, have one single goal, were working on to achieve: to restore the State's institutions, re-establish stability and peace, the peace path is very well known, available, no difference about it, nationally, regionally and internationally agreed on".
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