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Houthis return OHCHR office in Yemen to UN

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 20. The UNfrom the Ansar Allah rebel movement have returned the office of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Sanaa to the UN, the official representative of the head of the world organization Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing, TurkicWorld reports.

"The office was handed back to our Yemen coordinator Julien Harneis today. According to Julien, the office is untouched and is being inventoried," Dujarric said.

The Secretary-General's representative added that the UN is "encouraged by this step," but at the same time the world organization continues to call on the Houthis to release detained UN employees in Yemen.

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