The Security Council decided on Tuesday to renew for 12 months a travel ban and assets freeze imposed on specific individuals and entities in Yemen and extend for 12 months the mandate of the Panel of Experts tasked with assisting the Council’s Yemen sanctions committee.
The 15-member organ, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, unanimously adopted resolution 2707 and decided to renew until 15 November 2024 the measures imposed by paragraphs 11 and 15 of resolution 2140 (2014).
Dmitry A. Polyanskiy (Russian Federation) criticized the Council’s decisions on Yemen, which he said increasingly contradict positive political developments in the region.
He noticed that the “cynical actions” by the United States highlight Washington’s, attempt to use the current international sanctions against Yemen “to promote narrow mercantile aims that are far from achieving peace”.
He welcomed results-oriented efforts, particularly those led by the States in the region and the Special Envoy and urged the Council to develop normative legal basis for the Yemeni settlement, warning of possible setback in the progress achieved so far.