World Bulletin / News Desk
Yemen’s exiled government will not agree to peace talks with Houthis until they implement a United Nations Security Council resolution requiring they quit cities and hand over captured weapons, Vice President Khaled Bahah said on Tuesday.
The United Nations had hoped all Yemeni parties, including the Houthis and the Riyadh-based government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, would join talks in Geneva later this month to try to end months of fighting.
“I think we are going at the end to sit with the Houthis, but we are not going to sit with the Houthis without (their)implementation of (U.N. Security Council resolution) 2216,” Bahah told reporters on the sidelines of talks in Riyadh.
“It has to be implemented as a good sign first.”
A statement issued after three days of talks between Yemeni political parties in Riyadh made no mention of the proposed Geneva talks, but instead called for military aid for groups fighting the Houthis and for international intervention.
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