UN confirms Yemen peace talks to begin
The government delegation which arrived in Kuwait at the weekend, had threatened to pull out if the talks did not start on Thursday morning.
Yemen peace talks are to start on Thursday in Kuwait, the United Nations said, after militias agreed to join the delayed negotiations following assurances pro-government forces would respect a ceasefire.
The talks are the most important attempt yet to resolve Yemen’s devastating conflict which enters its second year.
“The Yemeni peace negotiations will start tomorrow in Kuwait under the auspices of the United Nations,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
A delegation of militias left Yemen’s capital on Wednesday to join the talks saying the UN had assured them over the ceasefire.
Representatives of Houthis and their allies boarded an Omani plane bound for Kuwait via Muscat, said a Sanaa airport official.
The UN-brokered talks had been set to open in Kuwait on Monday but were put off after the Iran-backed insurgents failed to show up.
In remarks at a Gulf summit in Riyadh, Saudi King Salman expressed “hope that the talks in Kuwait will result in positive progress”.
The government delegation which arrived in Kuwait at the weekend, had threatened to pull out if the talks did not start on Thursday morning.
The delegation, in a statement, also accused the Houthi militias of violating the ceasefire in many areas.
A Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes in Yemen 13 months ago after the militias, who had seized control of Sanaa in 2014, advanced in other parts of the country.
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