Houthis begin unilateral withdrawal from Hudaydah ports
Tehran (KNA) - Yemen's Houthi forces have started unilateral withdrawal from Saleef and Ras Isa ports in Hudaydah province under a United Nations-sponsored peace deal, a news agency says.
Reuters quoted witnesses as saying Saturday that UN teams were overseeing the withdrawal, breathing a fresh lease of life into the peace deal which had been stalled for months.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Yemen's Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said in Twitter post earlier Saturday that the withdrawal would begin at 10 a.m. local time (0700 GMT).
He said the intention to unilaterally redeploy from the ports was due to the Saudi coalition's refusal to implement the truce agreement reached between Yemen's warring sides in Stockholm last December.
Under the deal, representatives from the Houthis and Yemen's Saudi-backed former government agreed to withdraw their troops from Hudaydah's main port and two other nearby ports, as well as Hudaydah city and allow deployment of UN monitors.
Source: PressTV