The Kuwait talks have failed to make any significant headway amid fundamental disputes over the agenda.
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A United Nations spokesman in Kuwait, however, said Cheikh Ahmed was scheduled to meet with the rebels later Friday and with ambassadors of the 18 countries backing the peace process in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has led a military coalition supporting the Yemeni government in its fight against Iran-backed rebels since March past year.
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Kuwait on July 20 set a 15-day deadline for its hosting of the current round of UN-brokered negotiations, which began in June, saying if the parties could not reach a peace agreement by then the Gulf country would have to be “excused” from its role.
“There can be no more talks after the new coup”, he said referring to the rebels’ formation of a supreme political council to run war-torn Yemen.
Military forces of the internationally recognized Yemeni government, was brought to a cease-fire on April 10, a United Nations report said on Saturday.
“The ball is now in the rebels’ court”, he said.
A truce that began in April has slowed the momentum of fighting, in which a Saudi-led coalition has been trying to restore Hadi to power and roll back Houthi gains, but violence continues nearly daily.
“What was presented by the (UN) 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.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed’s appeal appears to be a last-ditch attempt to rescue the four-month negotiations in Kuwait City which are on the verge of collapse.
The announcement came on Sunday after a high-level meeting in Riyadh chaired by Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the AFP news agency said.
The war has killed some 9,000 people so far, including seven Saudi soldiers on Saturday. who died while trying to stop Houthi militias from infiltrating across the border, a spokesman said.
On Monday, five Saudi border guards died in similar clashes.
Meanwhile, a police officer was killed on Saturday when a bomb blew up his auto in Yemen’s second city Aden, a security official said.
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It said in a statement that dozens of Houthi fighters were killed near the border strip and their military vehicles destroyed by coalition aircraft that repelled their assault.
