UN buys vessel to remove oil from decaying tanker off Yemen
UNITED NATIONS, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday signed an agreement with Euronav to secure the purchase of a large vessel as part of a UN-coordinated operation to remove more than 1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast that threatens a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe, said UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner.
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