{"id":56514,"date":"2015-04-25T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8068c780488ad10da902f64b7b410e62"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T17:25:25","slug":"news-story-uk-welcomes-appointment-of-new-un-special-envoy-to-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56514","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK welcomes appointment of new UN Special Envoy to Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A FCO spokesman said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the appointment of Mr Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed as the new UN Special Envoy to Yemen, and stand ready to support him in this important role. We continue to believe that a political solution is the best way to bring long term stability to Yemen, and look forward to the UN taking a leading role in brokering political negotiations at a location acceptable to all parties. We also pay tribute to the efforts of the previous UN Special Envoy, Jamal Benomar, in support of Yemen\u2019s political transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the Saudi Arabian-led Coalition\u2019s decision on 21 April to end Operation Decisive Storm, and look forward to the new focus under Operation Restore Hope on a return to the political process based on the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, the National Dialogue outcomes, and UN Security Council resolutions. We urge all parties \u2013 in particular the Houthis &#8211; to take this opportunity to return to political negotiations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to the Coalition\u2019s commitment to increase opportunities for humanitarian organisations to deliver assistance to the Yemeni people. We also see freer access for commercial shipping carrying essential supplies of food and fuel as a critical next step. We continue to urge all parties to the conflict to adhere to international humanitarian law, including unfettered access for humanitarian agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK welcomes appointment of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed as UN #Yemen Envoy &amp; urges all parties to resume political talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}