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News ID: 69575
Publish Date : 21 August 2019 - 21:53

UN Envoy Arrives in Yemen's Capital to Meet Houthis


SANAA (Dispatches) – The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has arrived in the capital Sanaa to meet Houthi Ansarullah movements leaders over stalled "peace” talks.
Talks between Houthis and the exiled regime have been stalled since they reached a UN-sponsored cease-fire agreement in Stockholm in December last year over the country's Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.
Both Yemeni warring parties have failed to implement the deal or withdraw their forces from Hudaydah. The Houthis are still holding the port city while the former regime forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition are stationing on the southern outskirts of Hudaydah.  
Meanwhile, the leader of southern Yemeni separatists has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at ending a standoff in Aden port between the separatists and Yemen’s Saudi-backed former regime, who had been nominal allies under a military coalition.
Saudi Arabia, the coalition leader, called for a summit after the separatists on Aug. 10 took over Aden in a move that fractured the alliance. The ousted Yemeni regime and coalition partner the United Arab Emirates traded blame over the crisis late on Tuesday.
It was not clear if a delayed meeting involving both Yemeni sides would go ahead after the separatists extended their grip on the south on Tuesday by seizing military camps in nearby Abyan.
The separatist fighters are part of the Saudi-led alliance that intervened in Yemen in March 2015.