A/HRC/30/31 provided support for acts that threatened the peace, security or stability of Yemen, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) (2140 Sanctions Committee) designated three individuals as the subject of an assets freeze and travel bans: Abd al-Khaliq al-Houthi and Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, Houthi military commanders; and Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen’s General People’s Congress party and former President of Yemen. 12. On 7 January 2015, the Constitutional Drafting Committee submitted the draft Constitution to President Hadi. On 17 January 2015, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, Chief of Staff of President Hadi and Secretary-General of the National Dialogue Conference, was abducted by the Popular Committees while travelling to a meeting organized by the national body to approve the draft Constitution. The draft was eventually endorsed by 16 of the 17 members of the Constitutional Drafting Committee. The Houthis were opposed to the draft, in particular the division of the country into six administrative regions. On 18 January, President Hadi ordered the security forces to restore government control over Sana’a, large sections of which had been seized by the Popular Committees, affiliated with the Houthis, since September 2014. On 19 January 2015, fighting broke out in Sana’a between Houthi forces and members of the presidential guards. On the following day, the Houthis seized the presidential palace and the residence of President Hadi, who was then placed under house arrest, together with other senior officials. 13. On 21 January 2015, President Hadi and the Houthis announced a 10-point agreement, including provisions to revise the draft Constitution and to allow the Houthis to appoint new members to the Government. On 22 January, President Hadi, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and the entire Cabinet resigned. On 25 January, the Parliament was scheduled to consider the resignation but its session was postponed; as at July 2015, it had not reconvened. On 21 February 2015, President Hadi escaped to Aden, announcing that he intended to continue to exercise his presidential functions. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister and key ministers remained under house arrest by the Popular Committees affiliated with the Houthis. On 19 March, the presidential palace in Aden came under aerial attack, allegedly by pro-Houthi members of the Yemeni Air Forces. President Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia on 25 March. 14. On 24 March 2015, President Hadi requested the Gulf Cooperation Council and the League of Arab States to intervene militarily, citing Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations (S/2015/217). On 25 March, a number of States members of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the League of Arab States, led by Saudi Arabia, formed a coalition to initiate military action alongside other countries against the Houthis, in response to President Hadi’s request. On 26 March, coalition forces5 launched an aerial military campaign against Houthi military targets in Yemen. The Government of the United States of America announced that it would provide logistical and intelligence support for the coalition. In addition to air strikes, coalition naval forces imposed a blockade on the ports of Aden and Al-Hudaydah. 15. On 15 April 2015, the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, announced his resignation. Ismail Oud al-Cheikh Ahmed was appointed as the new Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen on 25 April. 5 The coalition consists of all the States members of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (with the exception of Oman), as well as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and the Sudan. 5