British Foreign Secretary for Asia and the Middle East Amanda Milling said that an additional two million pounds has been allocated to prevent an oil spill from the tanker Safer in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.

“A tanker oil spill could lead to an environmental disaster in the Red Sea and exacerbate a severe humanitarian crisis in Yemen,” Milling said in a statement, adding that the UK would step up its support to resolve the crisis.

She stressed that “the UN is ready to conduct an emergency operation, but the international community must increase the amount of funding needed to prepare for the start of work.”

Last May, the UK pledged £4 million in response to this call at a United Nations conference to launch the $80 million emergency plan requested by the United Nations in Phase 1, with donors pledged $60 million. long away.

The oil tanker Safer is anchored off the coast of Yemen overlooking the Red Sea, carrying over a million barrels of oil on board, and there is no way to fix it, and there are fears that it will soon break up or explode; This could destroy the environment and expose the local population of Yemen to life-threatening toxic substances.

The United Nations is coordinating international efforts to prevent the catastrophic oil spill from the Safir tanker by announcing a plan for a four-month rescue operation in which oil will be transferred from one ship to another to empty the Safir oil tanker and load it onto a ship, chartered by the United Nations. After this step, the tanker will be cleared and later replaced by another tanker.