National Council, Reconnaissance Research to host US Special Envoy for Yemen
‘National Council on US-Arab Relations honored to welcome Tim Lenderking’
KUWAIT CITY, June 23: The National Council on US-Arab Relations, and Reconnaissance Research, have announced they will host an exclusive briefing program with US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, USAID Assistant to the Administrator Sarah Charles and U.N. Resident Coordinator in Yemen David Gressly on Thursday, 24 June 2021, from 10a.m. Washington, D.C. time / Eastern Standard Time and 4p.m. - Kuwait City time / Arabia Standard Time.
The event will be broadcast on the National Council’s YouTube channel, on social media, and on the Council’s website.
Timothy A. Lenderking is the US Special Envoy for Yemen (February 4, 2021 - Present); Former US Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Peninsula Affairs; Former US Department of State Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sarah Charles is the US Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Assistant to the Administrator; Former International Rescue Committee Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy; Former White House National Security Council Director for Humanitarian Affairs, and Director and Acting Senior Director for Strategic Planning.
David Gressly is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Yemen (February 15, 2021 - Present); Former Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Protection and Operations for the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The event will be moderated by Col (Ret.) Abbas Dahouk, former USA Defense and Army Attache to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Military Advisor to the Bureau of Near East Affairs at the USA Department of State.
In announcing the upcoming National Council and Reconnaissance Research program, Council Founding President & CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony said that, “the Council is honored to welcome Tim Lenderking to speak about his important new role as the focal point of US diplomacy engaged in ending the fighting and suffering in Yemen. He is a talented and experienced diplomat who has been engaged in the Arab region, the Middle East, and the Islamic world for a long time.”
Multiple armed conflicts for over a decade have eroded governance in Yemen and created what is now considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. In addition to the humanitarian suffering, the conflict has killed tens of thousands and damaged the infrastructure of what has long been considered the most impoverished Arab country. One US- and European-funded organization, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, estimated that 130,000 people have died from the violence in Yemen since 2015, including over 13,000 civilians killed in targeted attacks. A recent report from four United Nations agencies projected that nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, with 400,000 of those expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition who could die without urgent treatment.