[20/09/2020 08:34]

ADEN-SABA
Deputy Director of the Yemeni Coast Guard, Brigadier General Musaad Ali Asaad, met today in the capital Aden, a delegation from the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Maritime Crime.

During the meeting, they discussed the means of cooperation and strengthening partnership between Yemen and the United Nations agencies, especially with regard to supporting the Coast Guards and enhancing its capabilities to carry out its tasks of maintaining security and stability in the Yemeni ports, coasts, islands and territorial waters, and combating piracy, smuggling and illegal acts of all kinds.

As part of the international efforts to enhance maritime security and freedom of navigation in the sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The meeting touched on the most prominent challenges facing the activity of the Coast Guards at the present time especially the damages the coastguard’s infrastructure suffered during the war sparked by the Houthi coup militia.

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