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News ID: 44485
Publish Date : 23 September 2017 - 21:08

UN Yemen Envoy Resumes Talks After Getting Term Extension




NEW YORK (Asharq al-Awsat) – United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed will commence a new round of consultations in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman aimed at finding the basis for resuming negotiations between the Yemeni government and Houthi and fighters to reach a comprehensive settlement for the crisis, diplomatic sources affirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat.
Another Arab diplomat revealed that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres extended the term of Ould Cheikh for six months.
Ould Cheikh will start his round of talks once he returns from New York where he was participating the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly.
Sources said that the talks will kick off from last achievements of the national dialogue, the Persian Gulf initiative, the related UN Security Council resolutions and Arab Summits on Yemen.
Talks will also tackle the suggested date to start negotiations between the crisis parties in Yemen.  
Ould Cheikh reiterated that the humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic. He added that although the crisis is humanitarian, its resolution is political.
Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit met Ould Cheikh on the sidelines of the General Assembly to discuss the latter’s contacts with international, regional and Yemeni parties related to the crisis.
Saudi Arabia along with his allies has been pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
More than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country’s infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble.
The Saudi war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic across Yemen. Earlier this month, the UN’s human rights chief called for an urgent investigation into Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes against civilians in Yemen.