The U.N. envoy to Yemen has slammed the proposal saying it gravely violated the U.N. Security Council’s resolutions on how to solve the conflict and warned the warring parties against any unilateral actions.
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The rebels had insisted that first a national unity government must be formed and a new consensus president appointed to oversee the transition.
UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait between the Yemeni government and Houthis have failed to make any breakthrough for resolving the conflict. The Yemeni delegation to the peace talks left the hosting country Kuwait after the Iran-backed Huthi rebel side rejected a draft peace plan proposed by the United Nations, its representatives said.
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The Houthis who, along with Saudi Arabia, have been accused of flagrant violations of worldwide law during the conflict, remain in control of Sanaa despite 500 days of bombing – although the rebels from the northern Saada province have been pushed back from the southern areas of the country.
Factory director Abdullah al-Aqel gave a higher toll of 16 dead and 10 wounded, and said all the victims were workers.
He said the decision taken by “those parties which made a coup against legitimacy” to form a presidential council and call parliament for another session will lead to further complexities.
They said the council’s next missions are to jointly run the country, cooperate militarily against Yemeni government forces and form a new “national government”.
Yemeni military sources said that heavy shelling and intensified armed confrontations rocked the eastern part of Sanaa, particularly Nehim district.
According to local media outlets, the government forces warned the residents of Sanaa not to shelter Houthis or allow them to enter their homes, and to stay away from Houthi-controlled military positions.
For well over a year, war has ravaged Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, killing thousands of civilians and creating one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, in which 14 million people, more than half of the population, face hunger.
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The Iran-backed Houthis overran Sanaa in late 2014 before moving into other parts of Yemen, prompting a Saudi-led military coalition to intervene in March previous year in support of president Abdrabu Mansur Hadi.
