Greece at UN: Situation in Yemen has reached critical crossroad

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis chairs a gathering of the United Nations Security Council astatine UN headquarters successful New York, connected May 20, 2025. According to the writer, present that Greece holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council and is being viewed arsenic staunchly pro-Israel, it needs to guarantee the contiguous transportation of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. [JEENAH MOON/REUTERS]

The information situation successful Yemen has reached a captious crossroad, Greece’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Aglaia Balta, stressed connected Monday.

“Greece condemns successful the strongest imaginable terms the Houthi penetration into the premises of the World Food Program and UNICEF successful Sana’a, which led to the forcible detention of astatine slightest twenty-one UN personnel,” she told the assembly and called for the “immediate and unconditional merchandise of each arbitrarily detained personnel.”

Greece’s Permanent Representative to the UN besides referred to maritime security, condemning the Houthi attacks connected the commercialized vessels Magic Seas and Eternity C. Balta said that these attacks “pose a terrible menace to state of navigation,” while recalling that 4 unit members were killed and eleven stay hostages.

Greece, she said, continues to lend decisively to the EU cognition Aspides successful the Red Sea.