Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement rejects proposal to han dover Hudaydah
Tehran (KNA) - Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has strongly rejected demands by its rival group, the country’s former Saudi-backed government, to hand over the port city of Hudaydah and to inspect flights to Sana’a airport.
The former government's delegation made the demands on Friday, the second day of peace negotiations brokered by the United Nations in Sweden.
Mohammed Abdulsalam, the head of the Houthi delegation at the peace talks, further said the port of Hudaydah must be kept apart from the military conflict, and that a government should be formed first before all parties are disarmed.
The so-called government, led by Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, has tightly besieged Hudaydah through its armed militia and mercenaries employed by the United Arab Emirates since June, when they launched a full-scale offensive against the western port city.
Since the onset of the operation against Hudaydah, the humanitarian situation has worsened in Yemen due to a broad economic collapse. More than 70 percent of Yemen's imports used to pass through the docks of the vital port.
The invaders have failed to achieve their objective of overrunning Hudaydah and defeating Houthi fighters.
Source: PressTV