Topic: 2024-Situation in Yemen
Country: Gabon (UNSC)
Delegate Name: Broderick Mcdonald
In history, the country of Gabon has been quite a peculiar country with these types of conflicts. Gabon has shown its stance with Yemen’s 2 October truce being lifted. Their statement showed disappointment towards the air strikes and military operations against Yemen. As the Gabon
delegate, we notice and speak out about how an ethnic group’s powers are being overthrown. We see these attacks against Yemen not just as attacks against the country but against the minorities that are there too.
As Gabon, we do not support these attacks going against Yemen. We do not support the thousands of lives that have been changed just because of a truce being lifted. These kids’ lives have been turned upside down just because they were born into the truce that protected them and the truce being lifted means they have to deal with their generational mistakes. For those reasons, we do not support these harsh attacks against Yemen.
During these air strikes against Yemen, Gabon has been vocal about how the Yemeni people have a right to be safe in their own country. The people who had lived there before the truce was introduced in April of 2022 know there’s a constant fear over your head. Without a truce over the Yemeni people’s heads, there is a sense that they won’t be safe again but as the delegate of Gabon, we ensure that surveillance is the best kind of secureness for a country’s people. With security over the Yemeni people, and over Yemen as a whole, there is a better chance to stop these acts of terrorism.
Yemen is a country under attack, a country in crisis, a country that needs help. Those three things that are happening in Yemen are rather crucial aspects of human life and human rights. Gabon has been vocal about human rights, as Gabon gained their independence from France they defined human rights as rights that are inherent and universal to all humans. Gabon’s definition comes into play with this crisis in Yemen because as Yemen is being attacked Gabon is taking the side that this is wrong and is against the countries attacking these people.
