No date set for new Yemen talks
The UN special envoy for Yemen has left the capital, Sana'a, with no success in brokering fresh talks between the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and members of the former Yemeni regime.
"We have not set a new date for the next round of talks," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Thursday before leaving the violence-wrecked country, AFP reported.
The official said holding negotiations has been delayed because of disputes over the venue and confidence-building measures.
The chance of a major breakthrough was similarly missed during talks in the Swiss city of Biel last month and the negotiations ended with nothing more than an agreement on prisoner exchange.
The first day of the talks on December 15 coincided with the implementation of a UN-brokered truce, which was mainly violated by Saudi Arabia that has been pounding Yemen since March to undermine Ansarullah and reinstate former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
The Ansarullah fighters say Saudi Arabia and former regime's loyalists used the negotiations as a cover to intensify their attacks and kill more civilians, and that Riyadh even stepped up its aggression following the ceasefire. More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since the onset of the Saudi attacks.
The UN envoy, meanwhile, said he was alarmed by the "suffering of Yemenis."
He, however, expressed hopes about a "quick return" to the negotiating table and said the Ansarullah movement had taken some positive steps during his visit, including the release of the former regime’s minister of technological education, Abdel Razzak al-Ashwal.
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