Yemen president, Houthi fighters must start talks: UN official
A UN official has called on Yemen’s President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and Ansarullah revolutionaries to start talks to resolve the ongoing crisis in the Arab country.
According to a United Nations statement on Friday, the special adviser of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, met with Hadi and the cabinet of Prime Minister Khaled Bahah.
The advisor’s “consistent message to all political parties is that they need to engage in inclusive consultations with each other that will produce an agreement on how to move forward from the current crisis,” the statement added.
It said that Benomar is scheduled to meet with different political groupings in Yemen in the next few days to encourage them to hold talks.
Yemeni President Hadi submitted his resignation on Thursday just after the cabinet of Prime Minister Bahah resigned.
Yemen’s parliament, however, has rejected Hadi’s resignation and is set to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue.
Under the Yemeni constitution, if the president’s resignation is accepted, the parliament speaker will take office for an interim period while new elections are organized.
In September 2014, Ansarullah revolutionary fighters gained control of Sana’a following a four-day battle with army forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the half-brother of the country’s former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In the same month, Ansarullah fighters and the Yemeni government inked a UN-backed ceasefire deal that called for the withdrawal of the revolutionaries from the capital once a neutral prime minister was picked. The deal has failed to deliver any practical results so far.
The Ansarullah revolutionaries say the Yemeni government has been incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and providing security.
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