UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — CAAC refers to the Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict, which is compiled by the United Nations.
"On the CAAC report, he [Ban Ki-moon] accepts a proposal by Saudi Arabia that the United Nations and the Saudi-led coalition review jointly the cases and numbers cited in the text," the statement said on Monday. "The Secretary-General shares the objective that the report reflects the highest standards of accuracy possible."
On Thursday, Ban added the Saudi-led coalition conducting a military campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen to the blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children's rights, claiming the coalition’s airstrikes were responsible for more than half of child deaths in Yemen’s civil war.
In reversing that decision on Monday, Ban invited the Saudi-led coalition to send a team to New York to review UN findings.
Since 2014, Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government headed by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Shia Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition force.
Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes on Houthi positions.
