Houthis support Yemen peace talks in Geneva
The revolutionary Ansarullah Houthi movement has called on all Yemeni rival groups to partake in the upcoming Geneva peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in the war-torn Arab state.
“It is essential that the conference in Geneva started from the point at which the national inter-Yemeni dialogue, held under UN auspices and subsequently disrupted by the Saudi aggression was interrupted,” Hamza al-Houthi, a member of the Houthis’ political office, told RIA Novosti on Monday.
He emphasized that the participation of all parties in the talks is “necessary.”
The comments came as Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the new UN peace envoy to Yemen, has been preparing the ground for a new round of negotiations in Geneva on May 28.
The Ansarullah movement had previously, however, slammed the recent Yemen talks in Saudi Arabia, saying it would only engage in dialog in Yemen or in a neutral country. The group says the negotiations, whose last session was held on Tuesday, did not represent the demands of the Yemeni population.
Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26 without a UN mandate in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
However, the Ansarullah revolutionaries later said Hadi lost his legitimacy as president of Yemen after he fled Sana’a to the port city of Aden in the south.
On March 25, the embattled president fled Aden, where he had sought to set up a rival power base, to Riyadh after Ansarullah revolutionaries advanced on the port.
The Ansarullah fighters took control of Sana’a in September 2014 and are currently moving southward. The revolutionaries said the Hadi government was incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.
Yemen’s health facilities say over 1,800 people have been killed and 7,330 injured due to the conflict in the Arab state since March 19, according to the UN.
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