UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES (AFP) - The United Nations held an unusual session on Wednesday (July 15) to express fears of 'catastrophe' if a decaying oil tanker abandoned off Yemen's coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board ruptures into the Red Sea.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES - The United Nations held an unusual session on Wednesday to express fears of"catastrophe" if a decaying oil tanker abandoned off Yemen's coast with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board ruptures into the Red Sea.
The tanker's"condition is deteriorating daily, increasing the potential for an oil spill," Inger Andersen, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, told the Council. Effectively a floating storage platform, the Safer has had virtually no maintenance for five years since war broke out in the country where the Huthis have seized much of the north from the internationally recognized government.
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