UN welcomes first commercial flight from Yemen’s Sanaa airport to Egypt
The United Nations has welcomed the first commercial flight from Yemen’s Sanaa airport to Cairo, a UN spokesman said.
The first commercial flight took off on Wednesday.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told the regular press briefing on Wednesday that “this was the seventh flight operating under the terms of the UN brokered two-month nationwide truce and represents an important element of the truce.”
A total of 2,495 Yemenis have travelled so far between Sanaa, Amman and Cairo, Xinhua news agency reported.
