Kerry told reporters during his visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss with Arab allies and United Nations officials means to end the conflict that he hoped a new goal of establishing a unity government would succeed where other peace efforts have failed.
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This story has been correct to show that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef showed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the photographs, not Saudi King Salman.
Kerry’s new peace road came after his meeting this week in Jeddah with foreign ministers of British and Arab Gulf states to end Yemen civil war.
The flurry of meetings were held after UN-mediated peace talks to bring an end to the war in Yemen were suspended earlier this month.
Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen killed 11 civilians, including women and children, Yemen’s rebel-run news agency said Friday. The United States is also providing critical support to improve the capacity of Hudaydah Port to receive humanitarian and commercial supplies.
The talks come as Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of Islamic State’s last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Turkey’s first major USA -backed incursion into its southern neighbour.
The coalition intervened in March previous year to support President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthis and their allies seized much of Yemen.
“This leaves nothing for future speculation”, Kerry said. “This has a clarity to it about how confidence can be built, what the end game looks like, and how the parties get there”.
Kerry was in Saudi Arabia, where he met with Foreign Affairs Minister Adel al-Jubeir to discuss the 18-month conflict between the Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government that has been exiled to Saudi Arabia.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday proposed a peace plan for Yemen that would include the presence of Houthi rebels in a national unity government.
Security deteriorated further after the Houthis swept into Sanaa in September 2014 and pushed south, forcing the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to flee into exile. He said he raised concerns about civilian casualties in Yemen during his meetings in Saudi Arabia.
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition are responsible for the deaths of some 60 percent of the 3,799 civilians killed since March 2015, and the country has committed other violations that may contravene worldwide law, the office said in a report.
A 14-member investigative team made up of coalition states Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, as well as Yemen, investigated claims of attacks on a residential area, hospitals, markets, a wedding and World Food Programme aid lorries.
In a new report, it laid out a long list of allegations of grave human rights abuses by all sides in the war.
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The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in March past year after the rebels and their allies overran most of the country, prompting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee into exile.
