On December 15, 2015, an Ansarullah delegation and representatives of the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh, began UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland with the aim of reaching a solution to the country’s conflict.
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Yemen’s government delegation to the talks hosted by Kuwait had said it was planning on leaving the Gulf emirate later Saturday after the rebels and their allies announced a council to run the country.
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It would now be replaced by a “High Political Council” comprising 10 members equally divided between the Houthis and GPC to “manage the country’s affairs” in all political, military, economic and administrative spheres.
Under this plan, new talks would then be convened on forming a government that would include the Houthis, delegates said.
“We call on the global community to condemn the new coup against the constitutional legitimacy and hold the Huthi-Saleh alliance responsible” for the failure of the talks, he said.
Ould Cheikh Ahmad was later expected to meet Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to acquaint him with developments of the Yemeni peace talks, and to discuss the proposal to extend negotiations. They also condemned the formation of the council.
The rebels overran Sanaa in September 2014 and expanded their control to other parts of Yemen.
The Iran-backed 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.
Warplanes of a Saudi-led coalition bombed Houthi fighters from Yemen seeking to infiltrate Saudi Arabia on Saturday, killing tens of Houthi militiamen, security sources said.
For instance we have always called for weapons surrender, reinstating the State’s institutions and withdrawal from cities, but eventually agreed on a gradual withdrawal from major cities, etc Sanaa, Al-Hodeida and Taiz as a first step to support the efforts of the United Nations envoy and alleviate the sufferings of the people of Yemen, he stressed.
This is the second round of talks to be held in Kuwait.
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The negotiations started in April have slowed the nationwide fighting that has killed at least 6,400 people and caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
