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UN says first day of Houthi withdrawal from Yemen ports went to plan

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15:24 - 12/05/2019 Sunday
Update: 15:25 - 12/05/2019 Sunday
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File photo: Danish Major General Michael Lollesgaard, who heads a U.N. team tasked with monitoring a ceasefire between Houthis and Yemeni government forces, walks by a convoy of a U.N. and WFP team crossing from Houthi-controlled areas to a government-controlled areas to reach grain mills in an eastern suburb of Hodeidah, Yemen February 26, 2019
File photo: Danish Major General Michael Lollesgaard, who heads a U.N. team tasked with monitoring a ceasefire between Houthis and Yemeni government forces, walks by a convoy of a U.N. and WFP team crossing from Houthi-controlled areas to a government-controlled areas to reach grain mills in an eastern suburb of Hodeidah, Yemen February 26, 2019

The first day of a withdrawal of forces by Yemen's Houthi movement from three of Yemen's Red Sea ports went "in accordance with established plans", the head of a U.N. mission to monitor the deal said on Sunday.

"All three ports were monitored simultaneously by United Nations teams as the military forces left the ports and the Coast Guard took over responsibility for security," Lt. Gen. Michael Lollesgaard, head of the U.N.'s Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), said in a statement.

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