United Nations officials have been warning for years that the Red Sea and the Yemeni coast are in danger as oil could leak from the Safer tanker in quantities up to 4 times that which leaked in the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker disaster offshore. off the coast of Alaska.
The UN unloading plan requires 129 million dollars, including the purchase of a large oil tanker, the price of which has soared because of the war in Ukraine.
The international organization has raised nearly $100 million from governments, private donors and ordinary citizens.
The United Nations said it hoped to raise the remaining $29 million at a fundraising event co-hosted by Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday.
The Nautica tanker was purchased by the United Nations in March and left China in early April.
He said the operation could not be financed by the sale of oil because it was not yet clear who owned it.
The war in Yemen suspended maintenance operations at Safer in 2015. The United Nations warned that the structural integrity of the tanker was deteriorating sharply and it was at risk of exploding at any moment.
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