The
Saudi-led coalition’s easing of its blockade on famine-threatened Yemen
is “a step in the right direction” but does not go far enough, the
European Union and United Nations said.
The coalition shut down
Yemen’s borders on Monday in response to a missile attack by Houthi
rebels that was intercepted near Riyadh airport.
On Wednesday, it
reopened the southern port of Aden, controlled by coalition-backed
government forces, and the Wadea crossing on the Saudi-Yemeni border was
reopened the next day.
The EU’s commissioner for humanitarian aid
and crisis management, Christos Stylianides, said yesterday that more
steps were needed.
“Initial measures to resume operations in Aden
port and to open Wadea border crossing are a step in the right
direction,” he said.
