Earlier today, the envoy met with the delegation representing the Yemeni government in the Kuwaiti consultations on peace in Yemen.
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“What was presented by the envoy was no more than just ideas for a solution to the security aspect, subject to debate like other proposals”, a statement from the rebel delegation in Kuwait said.
A top aide to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi said on Thursday that the government considered the peace talks had wound up without agreement.
The UN Yemen envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said Houthis should refrain from further unilateral actions that could undermine the political transition in Yemen.
Hadi’s negotiators are demanding the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution which stipulates the withdrawal of militias from all cities.
A Saudi-led alliance intervened in Yemen’s conflict in March 2015 to try to restore Hadi to power after the Houthis seized Sanaa and advanced on his temporary headquarters in Aden, forcing him to flee to Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies have rejected as unacceptable a United Nations peace plan for the country, saying the plan lacks any initiative for establishing a unity government in the war-torn country.
Mr Hadi is backed by a coalition of Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia, which has waged a merciless bombing campaign on Yemen since previous year.
The rebels angered the Yemeni government last week by announcing the formation of a 10-member “supreme council” to run the country – which the Yemeni foreign minister branded a “new coup”.
The resolution calls on the Huthis to withdraw from territories they occupied in 2014, to hand over their arms and return state institutions to the legitimate government.
A source close to the government said however that the team was studying the proposal.
The civil war, ground battles and airstrikes have already killed more than 6,400 people, half of them civilians, injured more than 35,000 others and displaced over two millions, according to humanitarian agencies.
Meanwhile, informed sources said that each of the Yemeni parties would hold closed meetings to discuss the worksheet, and form a stance towards it.
The Hadi government backed by Saudi Arabia say that he is the legitimate head of state and should preside over a transitional period in the country.
But the authorities have struggled to secure the port city, which has seen a string of bombings and assassinations by the Islamic State group or Al-Qaeda.
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In the southern port city of Aden, a pro-government militia leader was killed and three of his guards were wounded when a bomb planted in their auto was remotely detonated, security officials said.
