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Arabia
UN approves team to monitor ceasefire in Yemen's port city
2018-12-22
[Al Jazeera] The United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of its observers to war-torn 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...
to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea port of Hodeidah.

The resolution, submitted by the UK, was the subject of tough negotiations, and was amended several times before the vote on Friday.

The resolution also endorsed the results of UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden last week, when Yemen's warring parties agreed to a ceasefire that took effect on Tuesday.

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