Yemen Underlines Willingness to Accept Ceasefire
In a letter to United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths, al-Houthi said commitment to a ceasefire recently announced by the Saudi-led coalition must be signed and officially announced in an upcoming meeting.
He added that Yemen is keen to see establishment of real peace in the country.
On Saturday, Griffiths called on the parties involved in the war on Yemen to accept the ceasefire immediately and start talks to end the war in the country.
Mohamed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, has stressed that damages caused by the blockade imposed on Yemen are more extensive than the losses inflicted by the military attacks, warning that any initiative for the cessation of hostilities without a call for the removal of the blockade would in fact legitimize the blockade.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in order to bring the country’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crush Ansarullah.
The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past five years.
