More than 6,400 people have been killed in the Arabian Peninsula state since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in March a year ago in support of Hadi’s government.
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Over 80 per cent of the population urgently needs humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, the Houthis rejected this deal as they demanded that Saudi-led forces stop their strikes.
But on Saturday afternoon, Cheikh Ahmed said on his Twitter account that he had met both delegations, and “suggested a one-week extension to the talks and a framework for a solution to the crisis in Yemen”.
Under the new plan, a political dialogue between various Yemeni factions would start 45 days after the rebels withdraw and hand over heavy weapons to a military committee to be formed by Hadi. Apparently, the sole achievement beyond a cessation of hostilities both sides can claim is the freeing of prisoners of war. According to Sputnik’s source at the Kuwait talks, the Yemeni government delegation signed the agreement before departure.
“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”, said a Sunday statement by the delegation representing Houthis and their allies in ongoing peace talks in Kuwait.
Foreign minister Abdelmalek Al Mikhlafi said president Abdrabu Mansur Hadi had authorised the government delegation to accept the agreement on condition that the rebels also sign it before August 7.
The Foreign Minister said without the withdrawal of their forces from the cities, rebels would get nothing, neither from the government nor from the worldwide community.
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.
Yemen’s dominant Houthi group and its allies in former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party said on Wednesday they had agreed to set up a governing council to run the country, signaling frustration with peace talks in Kuwait.
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and ambassadors from 18 other nations supporting Yemeni peace efforts endorsed the continuation of the Kuwait talks and condemned the Houthis’ announcement that they were forming a “supreme political council”.
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The adults were taken to hospital in the city of Zinjibar, capital of the southern province of Abien.
