The UN Security Council will meet on Saturday to discuss a Russian proposal for humanitarian pauses in the air campaign in Yemen, diplomats said.
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Russia called for the meeting amid growing alarm over the rising civilian death toll from the fighting in Yemen.
UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday she was “extremely concerned” about civilian deaths after agencies reported that 519 people had been killed and nearly 1,700 injured in two weeks of fighting in Yemen.
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The UN children’s agency this week said at least 62 children had been killed and 30 injured over the past week in Yemen, and that more of them were being recruited as child soldiers.
Aleksey Zaytsev, spokesman for the Russian mission at the United Nations, said the closed-door consultations would be about “possible humanitarian pauses in air strikes.”
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