UN Security Council renews monitoring of Houthi Red Sea attacks amid Yemen airspace escalation
NEW YORK CITY: The UN Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution that extends for six months the secretary-general’s mandate to report Houthi attacks against merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Thirteen of the 15 council members voted in favor of the resolution, while Russia and China abstained. The mandate will now remain in force until Jan. 15, 2027.
Resolution 2826, co-authored by the US and Greece, the “penholders” who take the lead on the Red Sea crisis at the Security Council, extends a reporting requirement established under Resolution 2722 in January 2024, and most recently renewed by Resolution 2812 in January this year.
The text of the resolution is a straightforward technical rollover, with a single operative paragraph that continues the monitoring mechanism without any substantive changes.
