UN warning: Yemenis are likely to die because Saudi Arabia and the UAE have refused to pay their obligations

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are refusing to pay the aid they have pledged to Yemen, leaving Yemenis at risk of death, according to a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The United Nations has revealed that these countries have paid only a fraction of what they have pledged to the war-torn country.

Donors pledged $ 2.6 billion in February, including $ 1.5 billion from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but Yemen received less than half of the value.

Most donors have fulfilled their pledges, and some have done more than they have pledged.

Prone to death
A UN spokesman said in a statement last Wednesday that Saudi Arabia had paid only $ 127 million, while Abu Dhabi had paid only $ 16 million, adding that when money did not come, people were vulnerable to death.

The Saudi pledge of funding was made at a news conference amid a media hype, and Saudi public relations advisers hope the aid will be the source of much of the publicity Saudi Arabia needs, the report says.

Lloyd Russell-Moell, a member of the British Labor parliament and an arms committee member in the House of Commons, says Saudi Arabia spends $ 50 billion a year to destroy Yemen and create millions of refugees, but refuses to spend just a fraction of that money to ensure that survivors of the bombing and siege do not die. die from hunger.

The United Nations has warned that if new funding is not received in the coming weeks, food rations for some 12 million Yemenis will be reduced, and that 2.5 million malnourished children will not have access to food and medicine to survive.

Comment programs
The UN agency has already had to suspend most of the vaccination campaigns scheduled for next May, and 22 vital lifesaving programs in Yemen will all be halted in the next two months unless new funds arrive, the report says.

The newspaper pointed out that the Saudi authorities did not respond to its request to respond to the statements of the United Nations in this regard.