[26/10/2023 03:49]

ADEN - SABA
Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmalik received today, Thursday, in the temporary capital Aden the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba and her accompanying delegation.

The discussions covered a range of topics relating to the child rights in Yemen, cooperation between the government and the UN's agencies concerned with the child protection and prevent recruiting them and Houthi militias' violations against children.

Dr. Ma'een reiterated the government's commitment to work closely with the UN on implementing the Road Map which signed with the UN to prevent child recruitment.

He cited the practical measures the government has taken to reduce the use of children amid armed conflict including inking the road map to reduce recruiting children in 2014, signing the declaration of the Safe Schools, and the protocol for returning the children who participated in the armed actions to their families and signing the Road Map to comply with the agreement of the action plan between the Yemeni government and the UN to reduce the use and recruit children in the armed conflict in 2018.

For her part Gamba praised the Yemeni government's efforts to prevent child recruitment and use in the armed conflict, appreciating the government's cooperation over the past year about the implementation of the road map to prevent the children recruitment.

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