Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he has received a letter from the government delegation agreeing to a “draft peace agreement proposed by the United Nations to resolve the conflict in Yemen”.
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Security deteriorated further after the Huthi rebels swept into the capital and pushed south, forcing President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government to flee into exile in March previous year.
Meanwhile, two bombings hit the southern city of Aden, the temporary seat of Mr Hadi’s government, underlining the Yemen’s precarious security conditions.
On the other side of the Kuwait City, delegates of the Shiite Houthi revolutionary group and its ally former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s party were still in their hotel rooms.
In March of past year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
The agreement proposed by the United Nations envoy includes clauses on both the Houthis and Saleh forces laying down arms, withdrawing for the Yemeni capital Sana, as well as the cities of Taiz and Hudaydah, and creating a military committee responsible for overseeing the process, the Sky News Arabia channel reported.
Under those proposals, the rebels would have to pull out of cities, including the capital, Sanaa, and would have 45 days to hand over weapons they looted from army depots.
“The ball now is in the court of the Houthis”, he said, adding that his delegation agreed to the deal despite reservations.
Under the proposed peace deal, the political council would be abolished along with all decisions made by the rebels since they occupied the capital.
Houthi leaders said Thursday they are forming a coalition administration.
It claimed that dozens of the rebels were killed.
Members of the Southern Resistance militia gather at the site of a auto bomb attack in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday.
In a series of social media posts, Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi briefly outlined the plan that would end almost two years of armed conflict between government forces and the Houthi rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in late 2014.
In a statement early Sunday, the coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels said Saudi border guards on Saturday repelled a rebel attempt to cross the kingdom’s southern borders in the Najran area.
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The jihadist rivals have exploited the turmoil to boost their activities in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
