A Houthi militant stands outside al-Nour mosque in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Wednesday.

Yemen’s Houthi group and the party of the former president have accepted a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman, paving the way for resuming negotiations to end months of conflict in the country.

Both groups said on Wednesday that they had officially on Wednesday notified UN chief Ban Ki-moon that they were ready to join talks on a settlement based on a seven-point peace plan proposed by the UN in talks in Oman last month.

Aid agencies and the UN have raised alarm over the human cost of the war.

In his letter dated on Oct. 3, Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam confirmed that his group and others allied to it backed the seven-point plan.

“The Security Council supports a political settlement for the Yemen crisis and the return to the talks with no preconditions, and so do we,” the letter added.

Deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC) party also accepted the plan. “An official source at the General People’s Congress reiterated the party’s position on ending hostilities and raising the blockade and on a peaceful solution to Yemen’s crisis,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s government vowed on Wednesday to stay in the country’s temporary capital Aden despite a deadly Daesh attack on its headquarters which lightly wounded several ministers.

The Yemeni government “insists on continuing its national and historical role during this exceptional phase from the temporary capital Aden until all parts of the country are liberated,” said a statement issued after the Cabinet meeting.