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The UN envoy to Yemen left the capital empty handed Thursday after a mission aimed at reaching an agreement for talks between the insurgents and the government.
"We have not set a new date for the next round of talks," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters at Sana’a airport before departing the conflict-riven country.
The Mauritanian diplomat said he was alarmed by the "suffering of Yemenis", but he expressed hopes of a "quick return" to the negotiating table.
The Yemeni government sat down with the Houthi Ansarullah movement and their allies last month in Switzerland for six days of talks that ended without a major breakthrough.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed had arrived in Sana’a on Sunday for a visit aimed at convincing the Ansarullah movement to attend a new round of peace talks.
He also said he received assurances about the condition of Defence Minister General Mahmud Sobeihi, who is being held by the revolutionaries, as well as Nasser Mansour Hadi, a brother of Fugitive former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
More than 5,800 people have been killed in Yemen since the start of a Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen, about half of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
