Yemen Monitor / Newsroom:
The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote this evening on a draft resolution to terminate the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodaidah Agreement (UNMHA), following seven years of field operations in the coastal city that has served as a focal point of the political conflict in Yemen.
According to Marwan Noaman, Yemen’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the UK-sponsored draft resolution stipulates a technical extension of the mission’s mandate for only two months, expiring on March 31.
During this period, the mission will begin scaling down operations and its physical presence in preparation for transferring remaining tasks to the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General (OSESGY).
This move implements the “Third Option” recommended by the UN Secretary-General in a review issued last November, which calls for the withdrawal of a direct UN political presence from Hodaidah. Instead, the UN will rely on the Special Envoy’s offices in Sanaa, Aden, and Amman to manage affairs related to the Yemeni file.
The decision marks the end of a long phase of UN presence in Hodaidah, which has remained a center of tension and stalled political agreements since the signing of the Stockholm Agreement in 2018, signaling new shifts in the trajectory of international mediation in Yemen.
