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Yemen peace talks originally slated for Jan. 14 will not happen on that date but may be held a week or more later, U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
"The 14th was mentioned as a date but I don’t think it’s on the table any longer," he said. "I don’t think the 14th is a viable date any longer. [The U.N. special envoy to Yemen] is looking at a date after Jan 20," he said.
The government of Yemen’s fugitive former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi sat down with the Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies in Switzerland last month for six days of talks that ended with no major breakthrough.
A halt to the violence is sorely needed in the Arab world’s poorest nation, where the U.N. says fighting since March has killed thousands of people and left about 80 percent of the population needing humanitarian aid.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website team
