NOURNEWS - In a controversial move, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres removed the Saudi aggressor coalition in Yemen from the blacklist of parties whose actions have harmed and killed children in conflict.
In his annual report, Guterres acknowledged the Saudi Regime's child-killing: In 2019, the Arab League killed 222 children in Yemen and carried out four airstrikes on schools and hospitals, but it dropped out of the UN's list of killings and injuries to children due to a significant drop in airstrikes!
News and reports reaching the Nournews account of the threat posed to Guterres by Bin Salman himself, similar to what happened exactly four years ago during the tenure of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
According to the report, bin Salman sent a message to Guterres threatening to withdraw several hundred million Saudi dollars from UN programs if a negative report was presented against the Saudi regime and the coalition under their control over Yemen's issue.
Exactly four years ago (June 2016), regarding the Al-Saud court, while presenting Ban Ki-moon's report on the black list of child murders, which took such an action that after the negative global reactions about it, the then UN Secretary-General acknowledged the threat from the Saudi Regime.
Following the recent move by the UN Secretary-General, Human Rights Groups issued a statement on Antonio Guterres' annual report on the killing of children and removing the name of the aggressor Arab coalition from the blacklist of parties whose actions have harmed and killed children in conflict. they also criticized Riyadh for not being included in the list as the leader of the coalition.
Amnesty International also questioned the UN Secretary-General's action.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, chairman of the Yemeni Supreme Revolutionary Committee, wrote in response to Guterres' action: "The removal of the coalition from the UN's annual report on children coincides with a new Saudi-US crime in Saada and the martyrdom of 13 people, including children and women."
Al-Houthi described the move as "ubiquitous" at the United Nations and a disregard for human standards, and called on the United Nations to reconsider its decision.
Now the question is, will Guttierez, like Ban Ki-moon, finally admit to the threat from Saudi Arabia or will he prefer the post of secretary general?
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