Civil society organizations in South send message to UN envoy Griffiths about their exclusion from consultative meeting
Civil society organizations in the south have sent a message to Mr. Martin Griffiths, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen regarding their exclusion from an extended consultative meeting over the Internet attended by approximately 500 Yemenis on the forthcoming ceasefire at the level of Yemen and the future of the political peace process, and several humanitarian measures and basic economic support needed to alleviate human suffering in Yemen and improve the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The organizations said in their message that the peace endeavors undertaken by the international envoy require consulting about opportunities to bring peace to Yemen, with the various spectrums of Yemeni society and listening to the voices of groups close to their circles, and in particular those civil organizations close to it that represent their conscience and voice and live their suffering.
The Civil society organizations indicated that they felt that the consultative meeting organized by the Office of the International Envoy on the eighth and the ninth of June this year, through visual communication technology, excluded civil society organizations, particularly those working in the liberated southern provinces, and the participants were limited to those personalities who represent themselves individually, without regard to their role, impact and societal status, especially since half of them are outside the country without being close to the suffering of their community.
The Civil society organizations emphasized that without the participation of organizations operating in the southern governorates living in the suffering of their society, These participations will remain incomplete in performance and results.
At the conclusion of their message, the southern civil society organizations said that this is an opportunity to express their wishes to the international envoy Martin Griffiths of success in his endeavors to establish a lasting and sustainable peace throughout Yemen.
