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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 3 december 2019

The designated director general of International Atomic Energy
Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi from Argentina, delivers
a speech at the beginning of a general confernce of the IAEA,
at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Dec. 2,
2019.
Associated Press
New U.N. nuclear agency A woman holds her malnourished boy at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen,

chief: "firm and Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. Associated Press

fair" stance on Iran Group: 5 more years of Yemen war to

By PHILIPP JENNE deal. With the unilateral cost $29 billion in aid
Associated Press withdrawal of the United
VIENNA (AP) — The in- States from the agreement By SAMY MAGDY ger, which is "twice the since March 2015.
coming head of the U.N.'s last year and the imposition Associated Press agreed timetable for end- The IRC said the conflict has
atomic watchdog agency of new American sanc- CAIRO (AP) — Another five ing malnutrition around the displaced 3 million people,
said Monday he will take tions, Iran's economy has years of fighting in Yemen world," according to David including over 350,000 in
a "firm and fair" approach been struggling. So far, the would cost as much as $29 Miliband, president of the 2019 alone. It called on the
toward inspections of Iran's other nations involved — billion just to sustain the cur- IRC. U.S, Britain and France to
nuclear facilities, and plans France, Germany, Britain, rent level of humanitarian An estimated 160,000 Ye- pressure the warring par-
to visit Tehran in the near China and Russia — have aid, an international relief meni children under five ties into an immediate and
future. been unable to offset the group said Monday, a sum years old suffered from se- countrywide cease-fire,
Argentine diplomat Rafael effects, and Iran has slowly that amounts to more than vere acute malnutrition, and to return to peace
Mariano Grossi's comments been violating the terms of the entire annual humani- the report said. talks.
came after he was con- the JCPOA. tarian budget globally. "Today's grim predictions It said a cease-fire bro-
firmed as the new director Tehran is, however, con- The war in Yemen has killed are an insight into the co- kered by the U.N. last De-
general of the Internation- tinuing to provide IAEA in- over 100,000 people and lossal cost of the Age of cember in the Yemeni port
al Atomic Energy Agency spectors access. Grossi told created the world's worst Impunity: where wars are of Hodeida, the main pas-
unanimously at a special reporters he expected to humanitarian crisis, leaving fought with a complete dis- sageway for aid and a life-
session. His four-year term travel to Iran himself in the millions suffering from food regard for civilian life and line for Houthi-controlled
begins on Tuesday. "relatively near future" to and medical shortages. neglected by diplomats areas, prevented massive
The 58-year-old succeeds meet with leaders there. A report by the Internation- charged with ending the humanitarian suffering "but
Yukiya Amano, who died "It is really a priority," he said al Rescue Committee says violence and holding per- the agreement remains a
in July, and takes over at of the situation in Iran, add- that 24 million Yemenis, petrators of international localized effort." The deal,
a time when the nuclear ing that his philosophy on or 80% of the population, law to account," Miliband which also included a pris-
deal between Iran and inspection safeguards was need humanitarian aid said. oner swap, has yet to be
world powers is unraveling. to be "firm and fair." and 16 million are living on The conflict in Yemen be- fully implemented.
The landmark 2015 deal "An inspector is not a friend. the verge of famine. The gan with the 2014 take- Also, the IRC said the re-
known as the Joint Com- He's someone who comes war also caused Yemen's over of the capital, Sanaa, cent power-sharing agree-
prehensive Plan of Action and needs to ascertain the economy to shrink by 50%, by Iranian-backed Houthi ment which ended weeks
promised Iran economic facts without bias, without it said. rebels who control much of infighting between the
incentives in exchange for agenda, in an objective The group warned that of the country's north. A internationally recognized
curbs on its nuclear pro- and impartial way," Grossi with the current rate of Saudi-led coalition allied government and the south-
gram. The IAEA's role has said. "This has to be done aid, it would take 20 years with the internationally rec- ern separatists "offers hope
been to inspect and verify in firmness, but in fairness as to return Yemen to pre- ognized government has for more inclusive peace
Iran's compliance with the well."q conflict levels of child hun- been fighting the Houthis talks."q