UN condemns Yemen’s decision to expel rights envoy

‘The United Nations secretary general has decried a decision by officials of the former Yemeni government to expel the head of the world body’s human rights office in the crisis-hit Arab country, terming the move “an extremely regrettable development.”

Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Thursday that he has “full confidence” in George Abu al-Zulof, and called upon the former regime’s officials “to reconsider their position on his expulsion.”

The UN chief further noted that loyalists of Yemen’s Saudi-backed former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, are “impeding the United Nations human rights work.”‘

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