UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- A resolution in support of a cease-fire for the city of Hodeidah and ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Isa in famine-threatened Yemen is "making its way" through the Security Council, the chief United Nations spokesman said on Monday.
"We look forward to very strong support from the Security Council," the spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Guterres, said at a regular briefing. "(The resolution) will send a strong signal from the international community in support of the UN's work."
Dujarric's office formally released the time of the cease-fire taking effect, midnight Monday local time (2100 GMT), just a few hours in advance.
The UN envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths called Friday for the urgent deployment of a mission of UN monitors to oversee the truce.
Dujarric added that the "details (on how the mission is implemented) are being worked out," including the logistical and security details.
"What will be very clear is that we will need the continued cooperation of all the parties, and all the people who agreed to the Stockholm declaration," Dujarric said, adding that the monitors would be unarmed. "This is not a peacekeeping mission."
He did not reveal the number of monitors to be deployed.
The week-long Yemen peace talks concluded on Dec. 13 in Sweden with constructive progress for future dialogues achieved. The Houthi rebel fighters and the government of Yemen have agreed on a partial cease-fire at Hodeidah.
The other two ports, Saleef and Ras Isa, located further up Yemen's western coast on the Red Sea, to the north of the Hodeidah port.
The ports are a major lifeline for Yemen, which is undergoing the world's largest humanitarian crisis. The port of Hodeidah is the gateway for some 70 percent of the food supplies coming into the country.
For weeks, humanitarian agencies had been warning of famine in Yemen, calling for an international presence at the port of Hodeidah to insure inflow of imports and humanitarian aid.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since 2014 when the Houthi rebels overtook the capital Sanaa and toppled the government of President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. A Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Houthis since 2015.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people and created a serious humanitarian crisis.
