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Truce ‘dead duck’ if rebel violations persist in Yemen’s Hodeida:
coalition
DUBAI, Dec 19, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A hard-won truce in the battleground Yemeni
city of Hodeida will collapse if rebel violations persist and the United
Nations does not intervene, the Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday.
“A total of 21 violations since ceasefire commencement have come to our
notice,” a coalition source told AFP.
“If the UN continues to drag the chain and take too long to get into the
(military) theatre, they will lose the opportunity altogether… and the
agreement will turn a dead duck,” the source said speaking in English.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1431 hrs