UN Monitoring Convoy Sustained Round Of Bullets In Yemen - Spokesman

UNITED NATIONS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th January, 2019) Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) General Patrick Cammaert's convoy sustained one round of bullets in Yemen's Al-Hudaydah as it was leaving an RCC meeting but none of the team members was injured, the UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Thursday.

"General Cammaert who chairs the RCC, and his team left a meeting with the government of Yemen RCC representatives... as they were leaving, one UN-marked armored vehicle sustained one round of small arms fire. The team returned to base without further incident," Dujarric said. "General Cammaert and all the members of the Secretariat team are safe."

The spokesman added that Cammaert and his team were supplied by the strongest security measures when the incident took place, and the source of the fire has not been identified yet.

The chair of the RCC called on all parties to the conflict in Yemen to remain calm and uphold the ceasefire agreement reached in Sweden, Dujarric said.

Cammaert serves as chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee, a UN-led team that groups Yemeni government and opposition members that is tasked with overseeing the implementation of a ceasefire in Al Hudaydah.

In December, during UN-sponsored consultations in Sweden, Yemen's warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in Al Hudaydah and pledged to implement various humanitarian measures, including an exchange of prisoners and establishment of humanitarian corridors.

Yemen has been locked in a conflict between the government forces led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthi rebels. A Saudi-led coalition has been conducting strikes against the Houthis at Hadi's request since March 2015.