The Pentagon has also sent US military lawyers to help train Saudi counterparts in ensuring the legality of coalition strikes.
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“There is no military solution”, Kerry said at a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in the city of Jeddah.
Kerry said the worldwide response to Yemen’s civil war had fallen short of the region’s needs, and pledged a renewed political and security approach to resume talks.
The US backed the Saudi war, and has been conducting refueling operations for the Saudi warplanes bombing Yemen, which have killed thousands of civilians over the a year ago and a half, and which are fueling increasing global condemnation. “We believe that this is a fair and sensible approach”.
“Saudi Arabia is committed to arriving at a peaceful solution”.
Mr Kerry said stability in Yemen is important to blunting the expansion of extremist groups such as Islamic State and al Qaida.
The UN has called for the creation of an independent global body to investigate a series of human violations in the ongoing war in Yemen.
They also fall on the same day that the United Nations human rights chief called for an worldwide investigation of rights abuses and violence in Yemen’s civil war, which has killed more than 9,000 people, including almost 3,800 civilians, and displaced 3 million. Saudi Arabia has launched thousands of air strikes on the country.
In a statement, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for an worldwide investigation into all grave violations, saying a national commission had focused mainly on Houthi violations and not pursued any of the perpetrators.
Cross-border shelling from Yemen has killed three children in Saudi Arabia and wounded nine other people, the kingdom’s SPA news agency reported on Monday. The border violence has killed several civilians and Saudi border guards. The contribution will help meet urgent humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable people in the Middle East’s poorest and most food insecure country, as well as Yemeni refugees in neighboring countries. They have since sought to consolidate their hold on the country. Would that be acceptable in any system? But there has been growing concern in Washington that the Saudi campaign may have targeted civilian installations including hospitals.
After Reuters filed the report, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said in a statement that, “Even as we assist the Saudis regarding their territorial integrity, it does not mean that we will refrain from expressing our concern about the war in Yemen and how it has been waged”.
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