Yemen peace talks in Kuwait next month

  23 March 2016    Read: 695
Yemen peace talks in Kuwait next month
Peace talks aimed at ending Yemen
A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign a year ago with the aim of preventing Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh from taking control of the country.

“The talks will be on April 17 in Kuwait, accompanied by a temporary ceasefire,” the official said.

More than 6,000 people have been killed since the coalition campaign began a year ago to fight Houthis and forces loyal to Saleh and to restore the president they ousted, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir have in recent days said that any peace talks can only take place between Hadi and the Houthis, and through the U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.

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