[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The United Nations...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
Security Council and U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Thursday pushed for more aid and commercial access to Yemen, where a near total blockade by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
has slowed shipments to the war-torn Arabian Peninsula country to a trickle.
O'Brien said 80 percent of Yemen's 25 million people needed help and half the country was just one step from famine. Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
imports nearly all its goods and O'Brien said commercial shipments had dropped to 15 percent of the pre-crisis levels.
In a statement, the 15-member U.N. Security Council "stressed the urgent need for ongoing commercial supplies to enter Yemen as a humanitarian imperative because of the heavy dependence of Yemen and its people on imported food and fuel."
The council backed U.N. Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
's call for a humanitarian pause in fighting to allow aid delivery.