Saudi urged to ease Yemen blockade further

11/11/2017 7:11:45 PM

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Saudi-led coalition's easing of its blockade on famine-threatened Yemen is 'a step in the right direction but does not go far enough, the European Union and United Nations said.
The coalition shut down Yemen's borders on Monday in response to a missile attack by Houthi rebels that was intercepted near Riyadh airport.
On Wednesday, it reopened the southern port of Aden, controlled by coalition-backed government forces, and the Wadea crossing on the Saudi-Yemeni border was reopened the next day.
The EU's commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management, Christos Stylianides, said yesterday that more steps were needed.
'Initial measures to resume operations in Aden port and to open Wadea border crossing are a step in the right direction, he said.

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