Houthis, Saleh party accept UN鈥檚 peace plan for Yemen
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Yemen鈥檚 Houthi group and the party of the former president have accepted a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman, paving the way for resuming negotiations to end months of conflict in the country.
Both groups said yesterday they had officially notified UN chief Ban Ki-moon that they were ready to join talks on a settlement based on a seven-point peace plan proposed by the UN in Oman last month.
Aid agencies and the UN have raised alarm over the human cost of the war, both from fighting that has claimed over 5,000 lives and from a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition supporting ousted President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi that they say has brought Yemen close to famine.
Citing allegations of war crimes, the rights group Amnesty International yesterday called for states, including the United States and United Kingdom, to stop arming the Saudi-led coalition, which has been bombing Yemen for over six months.
In his letter dated on October 3, Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam confirmed that his group and others allied to it backed the seven-point plan. 鈥淭he Security Council supports a political settlement for the Yemen crisis and the return to the talks with no preconditions, and so do we,鈥 the letter added.
Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh鈥檚 General People鈥檚 Congress party also accepted the plan. 鈥淎n official source at the General People鈥檚 Congress reiterated the party鈥檚 fast position on ending hostilities and raising the blockade and on a peaceful solution to Yemen鈥檚 crisis,鈥 it said.
The Saudi-led coalition and Hadi view the Houthis as proxies for non-Arab Iran and regard Saleh as a spoiler trying to undermine a political accord that allowed him to step down following months of protests in 2011.
Hadi had previously refused a UN invitation to peace talks in the region, demanding that the Houthis publicly accept the UN Security Council resolution.
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