A senior UN official said that international political diplomacy has failed to end conflicts around the world, including Yemen, which has been witnessing a war for a decade.

Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in his last press briefing before the end of his mission at the end of this June, that Yemen is still one of the major crises in the world and attention must be given to it.

While Griffiths expressed his hopes for ending the conflict in Yemen, he stressed that this matter is currently declining because “interest and commitment to using negotiation and dialogue to end the conflict is a characteristic, a rule, and a commitment that is now no longer an essential element in international diplomacy.”

He added, "We are not victorious in ending conflicts."

Griffiths is a British diplomat and was previously assigned as a United Nations envoy to Yemen from February 2018 to July 2021. He did not succeed in making any significant progress in efforts to end the conflict other than supervising an orphan agreement in December 2018 under the name of the Stockholm Agreement regarding Hodeidah and the exchange of... Prisoners and abductees, which stopped the process of liberating Hodeidah Governorate, and most of its provisions have not been implemented yet.