Ansarullah wants Iran to attend Yemen peace talks
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has called for the presence of Iran in any UN-brokered peace negotiations aimed at ending the Saudi aggression against the impoverished Arab state.
The Ansarullah, in a statement released on Monday evening, insisted on Tehran’s participation in the talks, which Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the new UN peace envoy to Yemen, is preparing to hold in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 28, Arabic-language Yemen Press news agency reported.
On Monday, Hamza al-Houthi, a member of the Houthis’ political office, called on all Yemeni rival groups to partake in the forthcoming Geneva peace talks.
“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,” he told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.
Houthi emphasized that the participation of all parties in the talks is “necessary.”
The Ansarullah movement, however, had previously slammed the recent Yemen talks in Saudi Arabia, saying it would only engage in dialog inside Yemen or a neutral country. The group says the negotiations, whose last session was held on Tuesday, did not represent the demands of the Yemeni population.
On Tuesday morning, Saudi warplanes resumed airstrikes against various areas in Yemen as a five-day so-called humanitarian ceasefire expired on May 17. A number of people lost their lives when Saudi warplanes struck a residential building in the southern province of Dhale. Saudi warplanes also bombed different areas in the capital, Sana’a, as well as the western province of al-Hudaydah.
Saudi Arabia’s air campaign against Yemen started on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh. The United Nations says since March 19, over 1,800 people have been killed and 7,330 injured due to the conflict in Yemen, which was exacerbated by the Saudi airstrikes.
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