President meets WFP Executive Director


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Yemen News Agency SABA
President meets WFP Executive Director
[13/ March/2017]
div style="text-align: left;">SANA'A, March 13 (Saba) - President of the Supreme Political Council Saleh al-Sammad met on Monday with the Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin and the Regional Director of the Programme Muhannad Hadi Ibrahim.

They reviewed the WFP's efforts to minimize the impact of the worsening humanitarian situation food in Yemen because of the continued US-Saudi aggression and siege against Yemen and its targeting the air and sea ports, roads and bridges.

In addition, the US-Saudi aggression tightens the commercial movement, private sector and food imports into the country.

They reviewed the digital information that represents the WFP's estimates for the food situation in Yemen as 17 million people in the country are in need for food assistance, including famine threatens seven million. The Programme announced the assessment of the situation is the greatest globally emergency food.

The President reaffirmed its support for the program's efforts, especially in the current situation.

Al-Sammad pointed to the negative effects on the people, criticizing the aggression and its tools with regards to employees salaries which also affects more than 1,200,000 employees that also caused severe and human suffering to all social classes.

He noted to the security and stability as well as the flexibility of movements in areas that controlled by the army and popular committees.

Executive Director of the World Food Programme explained what was done in the current round of her work, confirming that she would continue humanitarian conditions in Yemen to support the humanitarian aspect.

She pointed to the previous state of the humanitarian situation of the seven million who had reached to the malnutrition, now they reached famine.

Cousin confirmed that Yemen needs only for peace, and the programme hopes to help Yemeni society to achieve peace.

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