However, in a different statement by Abdel Salam, he said that this agreement shall not affect the Kuwait peace talks.
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In the southern Shabwa province, 18 rebels and 15 loyalists have been killed in fighting since yeterday, other military sources said. The officials said they suspected that militants of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen were behind the two attacks in Aden.
Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi insisted the government was not abandoning the peace process, but suggested it would only return if the Houthis and a powerful local ally lifted their objections to the United Nations plan. The ambassadors, who were not identified, said the negotiations represented the best hope for bringing peace to Yemen.
“This is a clear violation of the Yemeni constitution” as well as Resolution 2216, he said in a statement released in Kuwait.
The Yemeni government delegation, led by president Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi, withdrew from the talks as they demanded to pass the UN Security Council resolution which states the withdrawal of the Houthis from all cities.
As for commercial shipments, it said that teams from the United Nations, the coalition and Yemen authorities inspect them, insisting that 1,462 permits have been so far granted, including for ships heading to the rebel-controlled Red Sea port of Hudaida.
“Today (Friday), we are holding some farewell meetings. and the delegation will leave on Saturday”, delegation spokesman Mohammad al-Emrani told AFP.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed who has been brokering 100 days of talks aimed at a peaceful settlement condemned the move without formally announcing the collapse of negotiations.
The UN-brokered talks to end the Yemeni conflict renewed in Kuwait in mid-July after a suspension that lasted for nearly three months. Most of the discussions focused on the type of the transition government to run Yemen.
The agreement also includes abolishing “the controversial supreme political council set up jointly by the Al Houthis and the General People’s Congress of former president Saleh on Thursday to run the country”, said Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abdul Malek Al Mikhlafi.
The council will “manage state affairs politically, militarily, economically, administratively, socially and in security”, the statement said.
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The rebels reiterated their long-standing demand that a peace deal must first forge an accord on a new consensual executive authority, including a new president and government. The UN had urged all parties to engage positively and effectively in the Kuwait talks in order to reach a sustainable solution quickly.
