Some 18 million people are food insecure; one million more than when we convened last year.
Last year, 1 million people suffered from watery diarrhoea and cholera.
But with international support, we can and must prevent this country from becoming a long-term tragedy.
Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen requires $2.96 billion to reach more than 13 million people across the country.
At the start of last year, partners were reaching 3 million people per month with food assistance.
Yemen has always received Somali refugees in big numbers coming to the country, and granting them prima facie refugee status, something that unfortunately, many other countries around the world refused to do, even if their resources and capacities are much larger than the resources and capacities of the Yemeni people.
Last year’s donor conference raised $1.1 billion for humanitarian action in Yemen.
The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have generously provided $930 million for the Humanitarian Response Plan.
Humanitarian agencies and their partners need full and unconditional access at all times.
All ports must remain open to humanitarian and commercial cargo for the medicines, the food and the fuel needed to deliver them.