UN envoy: Study other options to prevent Yemen tanker spill
By EDITH M. LEDERERJune 16, 2021 GMT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United Nations should keep negotiating with Yemen’s Houthi rebels but also look at other possible options to ensure that an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil doesn’t rupture or explode causing an environmental catastrophe, the U.N. envoy for Yemen said Tuesday.
Martin Griffiths told reporters after his final briefing to the U.N. Security Council that the Houthis’ delay in allowing a technical assessment of the tanker, the FSO Safer, is “frustrating,” especially for people whose livelihoods would be affected by an oil spill in the Red Sea.
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