Yemen government will attend Geneva talks with Houthis: foreign minister
Washington DC and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s internationally recognized government has agreed to attend peace talks in Geneva with the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi movement in a bid to resolve the crisis currently gripping the country, Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, Yassin said the decision came after President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi met with UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Monday in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Yassin revealed that the government will be sending seven representatives to the peace talks, which will also be attended by a delegation of similar size from the Houthi movement.
Representatives of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh will also be present at the meeting, Yassin confirmed. Saudi Arabia has accused Saleh of supporting the Houthi coup in Yemen, which the group launched in February months after their occupation of the capital Sana’a in September of 2014.
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