Kuwait pledges $250,000 for Yemen

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GENEVA, April 3, (Agencies): The State of Kuwait is pledging $250,000 to international relief aid efforts in Yemen this year, said a Kuwaiti top diplomat Tuesday. In Kuwait’s speech to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) 2018 Yemen High-Level Pledging Event, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Khaled Al-Jarallah said that this donation would hopefully help the Yemenis survive the upheavals they are facing in their country.

The donation came in line with His Highness the Amir of Kuwait and UN humanitarian leader Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s directives to aid the fellow Yemenis, said Al-Jarallah who indicated that the pledge came on time especially with the nearing of the month of Ramadan in mid- May.

The Kuwaiti top diplomat said that his country took all necessary steps to find a resolution to the Yemeni crisis, indicating that several inter-Yemeni meetings were organized by Kuwait to find a political solution to the dilemma. He said that the solution to the Yemeni crisis must be based on the tenets of the GCC peace initiative, the results of the national Yemeni dialogue, and UNSC resolution 2216 regarding the end of violence in Yemen.

Al-Jarallah called on the Houthi militias to abide by international laws and stressed that national unity is the only way to end the situation in Yemen.

The top diplomat took the chance to condemn the Houthi’s ballistic missile attacks launched from Yemeni territories towards Saudi Arabia, affirming that the State of Kuwait was against such vile acts. Al-Jarallah urged the international community to gather USD three billion to support relief aid efforts in Yemen this year, saying that its an humanitarian obligation.

Al-Jarallah thanked the Saudi-led Arab coalition for Yemen in its efforts to provide assistance to the Yemenis and also expressed gratitude towards the Swiss Confederation, Kingdom of Sweden, and OCHA for organizing the oneday high-level pledging event.

In all, the United Nations raised more than $2 billion on Tuesday to help civilians in Yemen, with half the funds pledged by governments that are bombarding the war-ravaged country. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres hailed the donor

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