‘Saudi Arabia Wrecked Yemen Peace Talks’

Date: 21 August 2016 - 20:59

News ID: ۳۰۳۰۸

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- A high-ranking Iranian official says Saudi Arabia’s illogical and unreasonable approach caused the UN-backed peace talks on the Yemen War to fail.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hussein Jaberi Ansari also hailed Yemenis’ support for the newly-formed Supreme Political Council.
"Without a doubt, Saudi Arabia’s illogical and unreasonable approach led to the failure of the Kuwait talks and nullified the UN envoy’s hard work,” he said.
On August 7, the UN-brokered peace talks on the Yemeni conflict ended without an agreement in Kuwait. The negotiations between delegates from the Houthi Ansarullah movement and the former Yemeni government had begun on April 21.
Jaberi Ansari stressed that the talks could have ended the war in Yemen which has had no result but the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians including many women and children.
Yemen has seen almost daily military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with internal sources putting the toll from the bloody aggression at about 10,000.
Noting that the attacks still continue, Jaberi Ansari stressed that with airstrikes on schools and hospitals the Saudi human rights violations have entered a new stage.
On Monday, a Saudi airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the Hajjah province killed at least 19 patients and hospital staff, and wounded 24 others. A similar Saudi raid struck a school in Yemen’s Sa’ada province on Saturday, killing 10 children.
The deputy foreign minister noted that the widespread condemnation of the attacks shows that the international community cannot remain silent to the Saudis’ atrocities, but also shows Riyadh’s neglect towards such calls.