The parties also made serious progress through identifying a framework for negotiations towards a comprehensive settlement, in addition to defining a set of relevant confidence-building measures relating to prisoner release, improved social services and improving the flow of humanitarian aid to Taizz and other Yemeni governorates, he said.
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Mr Ahmed told a news conference that all his efforts over the next few days and weeks would be devoted to ensuring a ceasefire does hold.
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Yemen has remained in turmoil since September of a year ago, when the Houthis overran capital Sanaa and other parts of the country, forcing President Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi and his government to take up temporary residence in Saudi Arabia.
Houthi and government delegates have been meeting in Biel in Switzerland to try to end months of fighting.
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed in the fighting and most of the dead were killed by airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition that dominates the skies in Yemen, said the witnesses and security sources, who remain neutral in the conflict that has splintered Yemen.
The special envoy said that under the agreement by the parties, all detainees and prisoners will be released once a permanent ceasefire is in place.
“It’s very clear that unfortunately, the ceasefire that was agreed upon as I said earlier wasn’t respected, and in some cases was violated from the first hours, even of these talks”, he said.
The Saudi-led coalition launched a military campaign in March in support of the government after Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and advanced towards the second city of Aden.
The participants spoke anonymously since they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Saudi Arabia said a missile fired from Yemen on Saturday struck the border city of Najran, killing three civilians – a Saudi and two Indian workers.
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At least 68 people were killed near the northern town of Haradh, which was overrun by loyalists on Thursday, military and tribal sources said.
