UN: Saudi coalition OKs resumption of UN flights to Yemen
The Saudi-led coalition that has imposed an air, sea and land blockade on war-battered Yemen since Nov. 6 has authorized the resumption of UN flights to the Yemeni capital starting Saturday, a UN aid official said.
The planned resumption of UN passenger flights from the Jordanian capital, Amman, to Sanaa, Yemen, is set to come two days after the Western-backed coalition had originally planned to reopen access to the country.
"We have been notified through our usual contacts with the coalition in Riyadh that the regular passenger flights operated by (the UN Humanitarian Air Service) can fly tomorrow to Sanaa from Amman starting tomorrow," said spokesman Jens Laerke of the UN humanitarian aid coordination agency OCHA at U.N. briefing in Geneva on Friday.
He said the opening "may be followed soon by clearances of flights from Djibouti to Sanaa."
